"Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it."

-- Katarina Witt

“Spirit, like body, needs to be trained. So I think it's necessary to make your spirit stronger. And for he who believes, anything is possible.”
“There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.”
“Love is giving everything and taking nothing”
“My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.”
“I dust [your photo] carefully every morning, for to do so gives me the pleasant feeling that I'm caressing you as in the old days. I even touch your nose with mine to recapture the electric current that used to flush through my blood whenever I did so.”
“A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.”
“I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.”
“I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.”

Source : Budd Schulberg (2011). “What Makes Sammy Run?”, p.60, Vintage

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