"When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig."

“I don’t believe for a second that weightlifting is a sport. They pick up a heavy thing and put it down again. To me, that’s indecision.”

“Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.”

Source : "ASAP Rocky Coveteur Interview: Rapper Says ‘Fashion Is Almost Like A Religion’" by Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2013.

“We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.”

Source : Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

“British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For illustrations of what I mean, study the photographs of the expressions worn by Mr Douglas Hurd at any international conference involving all the Western allies.”

Source : Conor Cruise O'Brien (1994). “On the Eve of the Millennium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

“I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.”

“Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.”

“I know that a man is converted when he starts to sing”

“I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.”

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