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“There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.”
Source : "Fictional character: Fleet Adm. William F. Halsey Jr". "The Gallant Hours", 1960.
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“Comparison is an act of violence against the self.”
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“Commercials are not the only junk food in the speech market - indeed, when compared to shallow news reporting, vacuous television shows, or political doublespeak, commercials are not even the most harmful to mental health.”
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“Sell the interview before you attempt to sell the product”
Source : Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.165, Simon and Schuster
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“Why don't you make a contibution to my sanity, and do the one thing you never seem to be able to do... SHUT UP!!!”
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“Costume is always an asset. Normal costume you have a lot to say about - if you're wearing suits or ties, and what color you want, and how it's going to be cut, and stuff like that, and whether or not you're going to wear a hat, and blah, blah, blah. But, when you're wearing a special costume, and of course, costume is probably the second ingredient in character, script being first, I always find that the costume does a lot to cement your character, to put it firmly in mind.”
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“A lot of people [are] saying civil union," Faried told KDVR. "I don't like it being called that because I can get married to a female and it can be called a marriage. Why can't a female be married to a female and male be married to a male and it be called a marriage? You still have the same thing, same love and happiness.”
Source : "Kenneth Faried, Denver Nuggets Star, Supports Gay Marriage And His Two Moms", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013. 
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“This, then, is my choice: I can allow the events of my life to happen to me. Or I can take those very same actions and make them my own. I can live in my own present, risk failure, be assured of failure.”
Source : Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel”, p.212, Knopf
