"We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need."

“All I need to know I learned from my cat.”

Source : Suzy Becker (2014). “Kate the Great, Except When She's Not”, Crown Books for Young Readers

“Indeed we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world.”

“The more I know you, the more I want to know you more.”

“I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend all your time checking your cellphone messages, or updating your Facebook (of course I don't have a Facebook page) then you don't have any time for reading.”

Source : "Meet Vaclav Smil, the Canadian polymath whose books Bill Gates is racing to read". Interview with Ritchie King, qz.com. August 08, 2013.

“Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.”

“I am deeply romantic and a genuine yet complex person.”

“The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.”

“There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.”

Source : J. Edgar Hoover (2015). “Masters Of Deceit: The Story Of Communism In America And How To Fight It”, p.9, Pickle Partners Publishing