"To become fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself."

“Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.”

“Men take care of your responsibilities with maturity.”

“Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.”

“I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk.”

Source : Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.

“it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.”

Source : Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.402, Random House

“The most generous and merciful in judgment upon the faults of others are always the most free from faults themselves.”

“I am very honest with them - with an understanding that I'm doing them a disservice if I'm not telling them what I see. At the same time trying to remember that they're people and they're children and you know they are going to have off days and that's something that I feel like I've had to work on as I've gone down the coaching route.”

“It's strange that so many people think it's glamorous and fun to be on a set, I guess it shows they do a good job of hiding reality!”