"I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt."

“Humility is the first step towards learning. You can’t learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn.”

“My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.”

Source : Burt Reynolds, Jon Winokur (2015). “But Enough About Me: A Memoir”, p.87, Penguin

“Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.”

Source : Barbara Delinsky (2009). “While My Sister Sleeps”, p.270, Anchor

“It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.”

Source : Military Review, October 1948.

“It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they ceased their fratricidal strife and, uniting their mighty forces under the flag of Progress, completed the conquest of the world and doomed Poverty, Ignorance and Vice... Unless labor is employed, capital cannot increase - it cannot concentrate. Unless property rights are held inviolable and capital thereby encouraged to high enterprise, labor is left without a lever with which to lift itself to perfect life and must sink back to barbarism.”

“I don't smoke, I try to eat right, and I love doing yoga and going for hikes with my dog.”

“People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.”

“The more you say no the more people ask.”