"After all, I wasn't a bad person. I was just doing my best in what had turned out to be a fairly imperfect life."

“No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.”

“This year I spent two months in Australia, and I did all the training camps in London. It was a really hard winter because I want to give the best performance of my career at the Olympic Games! That is the only title I'm missing and I will do my best to take it!”

“But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.”

“A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.”

Source : John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

“Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.”

“The art of healing, the art of ecstasy, the art of God-consciousness has millions of names in mystic terms. It has to do with rhythm and reality. When the body is in rhythm, there is ease. When the body, or any part of the body goes out of rhythm, there is dis-ease.”

“I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up his hole and it would run for a week.”

“I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.”

Source : "Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books". Book by Wendy Lesser, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2014.