Winning is very important to me, but at the end of the day, even if I lose, as long as I know I gave it everything I had, there's no shame in that.

Whether you want to be the best at your job, or at sports, just do your best. Give it everything you have.

I just don't see why the past has to matter.

The decide word is so powerful. It's amazing what you can do once you decide to do it.

Every possible thing that can happen or will happen has already happened somewhere. (Year 2036 John Titor)

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.

We are at war with men, and most women don't even know it.

Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.

I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.

We've always created stuff to go beyond our Swedish borders. I think we've always wanted to be noticed - to be known outside of Sweden.

I am persuaded ... that both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.