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“I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive.”
Source : "Morena Baccarin Is Competitive". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. March 21, 2012. 
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“As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing else will ever change it.”
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“There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.”
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“Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece. (Itkovian)”
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“I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.”
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“In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths.”
Source : Harvey Penick (2011). “And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend: Furthur Reflections of a Grown Caddie”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
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“True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so cunningly about, or creeps so insidiously into, our amiable qualities, and sets off its internal disorders by so many outward charms and attractions.”
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“The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.”
Source : Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”
