"I can’t even take a stroll through a park. As soon as women see my face they start gathering up their children and running for home."

“I believe that every conversation you have is an invitation to risk revealing the real you.”

Source : Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.162, Crown Business

“From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse.”

“Your life is on the line, practice well.”

“Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.”

“Hippies? Why, I'm the original.”

“Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.”

“Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got”

“Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.”

Source : Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.213, Penguin