"Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait."

“There is a timelessness about sport. Like music and art, it is a quality that cuts across generations and nations. It provides a link between Australians of succeeding generations whether urging on a Donald Bradman or cheering and rejoicing in the America's Cup victory. Call it the spirit, the soul of sport - it will be in 2001 the same as it was in 1901.”

“It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.”

“GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable.”

“God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.”

“I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.”

“There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.”

“Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.”

Source : "Star Power Fuels Push For Prop. 10 / `Rob Reiner Initiative' has steep cigarette tax" by Sabin Russell, www.sfgate.com. October 22, 1998.

“To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.”

Source : Phyllis Bottome (1954). “The Secret Stair”