"The person who has a sense of humor is not just more relaxed in the face of a potentially stressful situation, but is more flexible in his approach."

“Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right.”

“The last thing I ever thought would ever happen to me was losing my legs.”

“Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.”

“Constant conflict is actually often good politics, because the more you can inflame your supporters the more likely they are to show up at Election Day. And if they're more inflamed than the other side, even if the other side has more people agreeing with it, you'll win, because your crowd will show up.”

“Fall down seven times, get up eight.”

“Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.”

“I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.”

Source : Bruce Chatwin (2003). “In Patagonia”, p.59, Penguin

“Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?”

Source : "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.