"Invest in stupidity, its stocks never go down."

“When my mother was trying to teach me how to make friends when I was a kid, she'd bring girls over to the house and I'd give them all my clothes. Nothing changes, I still do it. And then I wonder, "Where is that really nice Isabel Marant dress that I spent a fortune on? Oh my god, I gave it to Liza."”

“Why don’t we have libertarian anarchy? Why does government exist? The answer implicit in previous chapters is that government as a whole exists because most people believe it is necessary.”

Source : David D. Friedman (1989). “The machinery of freedom: guide to a radical capitalism”, Open Court Publishing Company

“You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.”

“Be nice to everyone, always smile & appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow.”

“Do you know how much power I have over you? Yes, you, the one just sitting there hitting the f5 button day in and day out!”

“I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”

“She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them.”

Source : Tom Perrotta (2007). “Little Children: A Novel”, p.10, Macmillan

“people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.”