"Young people need to be inspired, told they can achieve anything they set their minds to."

“It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.”

“Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal”

“It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”

Source : J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

“You wonderful girl. I’ve missed you so much.” “Well, now that we’re both unemployed fugitives, think of how much time we’ll have to hang out!”

“People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]”

“What was I drinking last night? Furniture polish?”

“It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.”

“A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.”

Source : Quoted in Time, 29 Sep 1986.