"I enjoy sports, and love being involved in any outdoor sport from volleyball to softball. I'm not being immodest when I say I'm a natural athlete."

“A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard.”

“It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.”

Source : "My week: Christopher Hampton" by Christopher Hampton, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

“I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.”

“In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.”

Source : John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.24, Anza Publishing

“When The Phenoix Suns are missing two basketballs, they'll know where to look!”

“People are only what they think of themselves.”

“For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion .”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

“The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.”