"I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be."

“It is always about you for me.”

“Everybody in Germany was for the -German cause. But then, after the war ended, when I heard the first Glenn Miller sound on the radio and these fantastic American music makers, I turned into a jazz fanatic. They called me Benny, after Benny Goodman. So, all of a sudden, the eyes of young Germans were opened to America - everything American was absolutely at the top of the list.”

“Every kid wants to give their family a better life.”

Source : "Jon Hamm, JB Bernstein, and Rinku Singh Talk MILLION DOLLAR ARM, the PG Rating, Seeing Their Lives Become a Movie, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 12, 2014.

“So concisely, musically we are the herb So sit back and light me. Inhale... My style's kinda fat, reminiscent of a whale.”

“In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been in my life. I was in such anguish, and pleaded with so much earnestness and importunity, that when I rose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome; I could scarce walk straight; my joints were loosed; the sweat ran down my face and body; and nature seemed as if it would dissolve....”

“I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.”

Source : Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky (2009). “The Tanners”, p.72, New Directions Publishing

“Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.”

Source : "Science in Russian Culture: A History to 1860". Book by Alexander Vucinich, June 1963.

“Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.”