"Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations."

“To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.”

“If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering.”

“The idea of difficulty animates us all the time. We don’t want man to be an angel; we want him to be a hero. That is to say, a man like us, but who does extraordinary things. He jumps, yes, but in spite of the law of gravity. And everything he does is always ‘in spite of.’”

“You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.”

Source : "Tennis great Chris Evert finds new life on the court" by Liz Clarke, www.washingtonpost.com. January 18, 2012.

“In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.”

“Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they're not. We're told they can only be one thing - like handsome and charming and that's it. Nothing more.”

Source : "Interview: Actor Jason Ritter on his career, his insecurities and life with & without his father". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

“I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.”

“I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don't need a strong political background in.”