"I don't like to talk about myself that much."

-- Gene Hackman

“Be an instrument, a multiplier of God's blessings.”
“Don't miss out on the love of a good women,son. No matter what that old man of yours tells you,love is real.I'd have never had the success in my life without the women right there.She's been my backbone.She's been my reason for everything I've ever done.One day your drive to make a name for yourself will begin to drift away. It won't be that important anymore.But when you're doing it for someone else, someone you would move heaven and earth for then you never lose the desire to succeed.I can't imagine this world without her in it.I don't ever want to.”
“There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.”
“He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.”
“He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.”
“The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.”

Source : Vivian Vande Velde (2010). “Cloaked in Red”, p.104, Marshall Cavendish
“This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.”
“Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.”

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