"A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport."

“I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares? Everything is interesting.”

“There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.”

“I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.”

Source : "Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer: 'I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid'" by Justin Cartwright, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 14, 2014.

“It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.”

“I had no idea how Stevenson's cases would hold up under close scrutiny. But given what was at stake - nothing less than possible concrete evidence of life after death - weren't they at least worth a visit?”

Source : Tom Shroder (1999). “Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Past Lives”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

“A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure,”

“We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.”

Source : "Why Oscar Niemeyer is king of curves" by Tom Dyckhoff, www.thetimes.co.uk. December 12, 2007.

“The Strength of a hero is not in her abilities. In her weapons. These things are important, but they are not the source of her strength. The source of her strength is in her belief in an idea – the idea that those who are strong, and those who are able, protect those who are not, and those who cannot protect themselves. The idea that the good, and the right, will triumph. She is willing to put herself in harm’s way – in mortal danger – to prove her belief in this idea.” “That it is the duty of those who have within themselves the power, and the gift, to help others.”