"Wit has as few true judges as painting."

“I couldn't settle in Italy-it was like living in a foreign country.”

“The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.”

“There are champions in every neighborhood. Anyone can run to the very top. ANYONE! But you have to (a) start right, (b) think right, and (c) believe. Most runners get lost in one or more of those three steps.”

Source : Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

“One of Donald Trump's criticisms of President Barack Obama and of Hillary Clinton was that they seemed reluctant to use the words radical Islam. It was not just semantics. Trump said it's important to name the enemy idea and then attack it. Consider the Cold War. The U.S. and its allies waged a kind of propaganda war against the communist idea using radio broadcasts and other tools. Trump has said he'd do the same against Islamic extremism.”

“I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.”

Source : Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.5, Random House

“The only things I like are either illegal or they make me fat.”

“I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.”

“Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.”