"People inspire you, or they drain you - pick them wisely."

“That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.”

“The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.”

“Life is the one thing you cannot get out of alive.”

“It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.”

“I think what breaks people is not adversity; what breaks people is thinking that tomorrow is going to be just like yesterday. That's what's numbing - if you think you can't change, you can't be better. And I didn't like that.”

“I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'”

“I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading.”

Source : "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

“Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.”

Source : Donald E Westlake (2011). “Drowned Hopes”, p.36, Overamstel Uitgevers