"The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire."

“Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.”

Source : Lionel Shriver (2007). “The Post-Birthday World”, Harper

“A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.”

Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

“The laws of war, that restrain the exercise of national rapine and murder, are founded on two principles of substantial interest: the knowledge of the permanent benefits which may be obtained by a moderate use of conquest, and a just apprehension lest the desolation which we inflict on the enemy's country may be retaliated on our own. But these considerations of hope and fear are almost unknown in the pastoral state of nations.”

“Everything needs to touch your heart. Everything that touches your heart brings out the deep in you.”

“Only you can decide what is most important in your life.”

“On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.”

“Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.”

Source : Phyllis George (2002). “Never Say Never: 10 Lessons to Turn You Can't Into Yes I Can”, McGraw Hill Professional

“America Ferrera is definitely one of my biggest role models, and she has been for the last three years. Like a big sister, someone I can look up to and aspire to be.”