"It's so much healthier to acknowledge we're fluid and constantly in flux than to pretend to live in a universe where everything is fixed."

“I have a very simple question to people ... who seem to suffer from excessive narcissism: please name three other persons who are smarter and more capable than you, in the field you work in. (In most cases they are utterly unable to answer that question honestly.”

“I understand how much everyone wanted to see a British winner at Wimbledon and I hope everyone enjoyed it. I worked so hard in that last game. It's the hardest few points I've had to play in my life. I don't know how I came through the final three points... that last game ... my head was kind of everywhere. That last game will be the toughest game I'll play in my career, ever.”

“At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of something beautiful ... The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over - a century after it is over.”

Source : Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”

“A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.”

Source : George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

“Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it's harder to do something else; but if you do a drama, you can get lost in it and have a role to do other things.”

“In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.”

Source : James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.770, Open Road Media

“Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.”

“I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March”