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“The moment we definitely commit ourselves, Providence moves, too.”
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“We human beings are not only the beneficiaries but also the stewards of other creatures. Thanks to our bodies, God has joined us so closely to the world around us that we can feel the desertification of the soil almost as a physical ailment, and the extinction of a species as a painful disfigurement. Let us not leave in our wake a swatch of destruction and death which will affect our own lives and those of future generations.”
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“But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.”
Source : Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.209, Faber & Faber
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“Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.”
Source : "Still up to mischief" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004. 
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“The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject.”
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“I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.”
Source : "What I know about men". Interview With Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2006.
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“Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.”
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“There is a great deal too much in the world, of the "heavenly-mindedness" which expends itself in the contemplation of the joys of paradise, which performs no duty which it can shirk, and whose constant prayer is to be lifted in some overwhelming flood of Divine grace, and be carried, amidst the admiration of men and the jubilance of angels, to the very throne of God.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 502), 1895.
