"It's not how you start, but it's how you finish."

-- Michael Phelps

“You mustn't judge a politician by talk. You have to judge them by performance.”
“I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.”
“When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.”
“I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.”
“I have actually gotten to like fear ...”

Source : Pearl White (1919). “Just Me”
“To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.”

Source : "Out There with Nicholas Cage". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. May 1, 1996.
“God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.”
“Humanity-attached-to-the-task-of-changing-the-world, which is only a single and fragmentary aspect of humanity, will itself be changed in humanity-as-entirety.”

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