"I do believe I can forgive almost any shortcoming a person may have except lack of enthusiasm ..."

“Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.”

“The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends.”

“The actor's relationship to the crew is really a big dynamic that influences everything. When actors are assholes, it becomes problematic. When actors are great and sensitive and prepared, it makes a huge difference.”

“No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.”

“Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.”

“Overall, I have formed three major organizations: the National Association of Business Women, the Young Women's Leaders Network, and the Joyce Banda Foundation. Under the foundation, we have a huge program that targets women to teach them about HIV and other diseases and to give them economic empowerment.”

“There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly if we did not admit them to our souls. We would not be assailed half so often by devils, had we not taken the trouble to invent so many of them.”

Source : Robert Silverberg (1984). “Lord of Darkness”, Bantam

“There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.”

Source : Dick Button (1955). “Dick Button on Skates”