"The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes."

“Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.”

Source : Jules Michelet, G. H. Smith (1846). “The People”, p.20, New York : D. Appleton ; Philadelphia : G.S. Appleton ; Cincinnati : Derby, Bradley

“Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"”

“Spread love and understanding,” Reacher said. “Use force if necessary.”

Source : Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.1690, Delacorte Press

“Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.”

Source : Conservative Political Action Conference, www.esquire.com. February 13, 2011.

“I used to love the way everyone talked about food as if it were one of the most important things in life. And, of course, it is. Without it we would die. Each of us eats about one thousand meals each year. It is my belief that we should try and make as many of these meals as we can truly memorable.”

“I love showing my personality in my cooking.”

“Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.”

“To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.”