"Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit."

“People may know me from films, but theater is my first love. I did about 35 plays before I even landed my first screen role. I'm very comfortable on stage, and theater is not something you can just wing.”

Source : "Que Sera, Sanaa!". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. September 8, 2011.

“Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding”

“Free men are the strongest men.”

“But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.”

“The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.”

“A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.”

Source : Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.13, Sheridan House, Inc.

“Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always sounds like he's thinking about what he's saying while he's saying it, and that's a rare thing in politicians.”

Source : "MoJo Podcast: Roy Blount Jr.’s Southern Fried Language". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2009.

“Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.”

Source : Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “Globalization: The Human Consequences”, p.8, John Wiley & Sons