"If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake."

“The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you.”

“I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.”

Source : "Good clean fun?" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2004.

“It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a  person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.”

Source : "Folly's Antidote" by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., www.nytimes.com. January 01, 2007.

“Alice! You know I love you like a sister!" "Words." she growled.”

“If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands”

“The loss of control you fear is already in the past.”

“I guess when people feel intimidated or they see something having success they steal it. I don't judge 'em for it but I'm starting to notice that.”

Source : "Interview: LeSean McCoy Talks Chip Kelly, Kobe Bryant, & Nick Foles' Rap Knowledge". Interview with Maurice Peebles, www.complex.com. September 5, 2014.

“I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.”