"Promise me you will appreciate every moment because we are the lucky ones"

“If you have freedom of speech, you have freedom of speech,”

Source : "For Publisher Barney Rosset, Risk Has Its Rewards". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 21, 2008.

“I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.”

“The more I've walked through tough times, the stronger I've become.”

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

“Possibilities are completely different. When you ask 'what is possible?' you must stretch your imagination out of the confines of the familiar. To live a life beyond the mediocre, ask not 'what are my options?' but 'What is possible?'”

“People talk about the prestige of beating records but prestige never bought me dinner in a restaurant. It's winning games that does that.”

“We have to find out the technique by which the spirit whispers to our hearts. We have to learn to hear it and to understand it and to know when we have it, and that sometimes takes a long time.”

“But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.”

Source : Leanda de Lisle, Leanda Lisle (2013). “Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family”, p.27, PublicAffairs