"Reality is rarely what we imagine. Great and noble things do not always happen for great and noble reasons."

“I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first.”

Source : "Arrigo Sacchi, the magician of Milan, begins to build a new Italy". Interview with Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2011.

“Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?”

“Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.”

“I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?”

“I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!”

“Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances.”

“It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line.”