"Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm."

“If a D.C. event doesn't have crab cakes, it's low-rent and you need to flee.”

“If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The best antidote to stress is resilience... having the ability to respond to change or adversity proactively and resourcefully.”

“Reading will give you lasting pleasure.”

“I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.”

Source : "Lou Reed dead: 14 of the Velvet Underground legend's best quotes" by James Robertson, www.mirror.co.uk. October 27, 2013.

“Festus, you're such a great listener.”

“Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

“Learn to sell and you'll never starve”