"There is nothing you can't achieve if you help other people get what they want"

“The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women”

Source : Song: Luckenbach, Texas

“Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.”

“It's fun to be amazing, to be the star of the show, to have everyone watching you-even if you have to act like a pig.”

“I was in the Vancouver airport, and I was speaking with a young girl. She asked if I was Freddie Prinze Jr., and I said I was. She kind of giggled, and while I was talking with her, her girlfriend ran up and took my sandwich. I did not call out after her.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Yugoslavia is, with Iran, the only country which under difficult, not to say agonising, circumstances stood up to Joseph Stalin. It was not easy to unite ethnic groups or to modernize a country like Yugoslavia, and it must be acknowledged that Marshal Tito achieved something extraordinary. May God grant that his successors be as capable as he.”

“I was only twelve, but through the slow, inevitable burn of a thousand sunrises and sunsets, a thousand maps traced and retraced, I had already absorbed the valuable precept that everything crumbled into itself eventually, and to cultivate a crankiness about this was just a waste of time.”

Source : Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.17, Penguin

“As man is so constituted that it is utterly impossible for him to attain happiness save by seeking the happiness of others, so does it seem to be of the nature of things that individuals and classes can obtain their own just rights only by struggling for the rights of others.”

“I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.”