"Every kiss is a kiss you can never get back."

“So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their mission. The little we know about love does not transcend simple observation, and the little we write about it has been written better by poets and novelists.”

Source : Harry Frederick Harlow (1986). “From Learning to Love: The Selected Papers of H.F. Harlow”, Praeger Publishers

“Wrestlers, you don't just get better from wrestling live. To improve technique, you have to learn it, then drill it. Drilling is key!”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 24, 2015

“But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.”

“The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.”

“I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.”

“One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.”

“I rode, and I rode, and I rode. I rode like I had never ridden, punishing my body up and down every hill I could find. I rode when no one else would ride.”

“Tell me now in what hidden way isLady Flora the lovely Roman?Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais,Neither of them the fairer woman?Where is Echo, beheld of no man,Only heard on river and mere-She whose beauty was more than human?-But where are the snows of yester-year?”

Source : 'Ballade des dames du temps jadis' from 'Le Grand Testament' (1461) (translation by D. G. Rossetti)