"The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand."

“We don't have a refugee crisis in America; we have a racism crisis here.”

“I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head.”

“In English every word can be verbed.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

“One way to know you are REALLY on track is when people begin to doubt or "hate on" what you are doing. It's a natural part of the process.”

“Man is a perpetually wanting animal.”

“Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far too few anthropologists were listening.”

“The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled.”

Source : Chris Gardner (2009). “The Pursuit of Happyness”, p.6, Harper Collins

“For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?”