"Every time you're making a choice, one choice is the safe/comfortable choice - and one choice is the risky/uncomfortable choice. the risky/uncomfortable choice is the one that will teach you the most and make you grow the most, so that's the one you should choose."

“Make sure you are passionate about the vision.”

“Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.”

“I am not made for despair”

Source : Lian Hearn (2008). “Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

“After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.”

“What is striking is these things [patterns in nature, e.g. fish stripes] do look like something that has been crafted. We are conditioned to think that a pattern needs a patterner and so at first glance it seems incredible to us that nature is able to do this, without any sort of blueprint, without any sort of plan. These patterns organise themselves, that is the amazing thing.”

“To get people to eat well don’t say a word about health, just cook fantastic food for them.”

“History is, as we know, written by the winners.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

“We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.”

Source : "19 Unforgettable Quotes From Retiring General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis" by Geoffrey Ingersoll and Paul Szoldra, www.businessinsider.com. January 23, 2013.