"This really is my life's work, to go where there is suffering."

“I've never wanted to be in fashion. Because if you're in fashion, you're going to be out of fashion.”

“The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?”

“Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it's not easy being Tiger Woods.”

Source : "It's not easy being Tiger". Interview with Scott T. Miller, www.espn.com. December 6, 2012.

“We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.”

Source : Lewis Madison Terman (1947). “Genetic Studies of Genius ...: The gifted child grows up; twenty-five years' follow-up of a superior group, by L. M. Terman and M. H. Oden”

“My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.”

“Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.”

“I have retired but only in body. Spiritually, I still feel able.”

“Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view?”

Source : Arsène Houssaye (1852). “Philosophers and Actresses”, p.77