"The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up."

“I believe that President Obama is here for a reason, but that doesn't mean that he has to stay there next year. The American people have an opportunity to have a say and so I think we just have to do what we think is right - and see what the outcome is. God's got a plan.”

“Volleyball is one of the most interactive games going. It is a game of intuition, imagination, improvisation - but most of all, of reciprocity - of teamwork. There is no way to free-lance in volleyball.”

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”

“I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.”

“Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.”

Source : Sidney Hook (1987). “Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century”, Harpercollins

“I feel like my pure and proper image is causing others to be really cautious about becoming close to me. They think I sleep as soon as it hits midnight”

“We are destined not to go back to the level of animals that we've come from but to return to being by going beyond thinking.”

“One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.”

Source : Jane Campion, Virginia Wright Wexman (1999). “Jane Campion: Interviews”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi