"Ascot is so exclusive that it is the only racecourse in the world where the horses own the people."

“Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.”

“Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.”

Source : Eric Zafran, Alexander Calder, Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Cynthia E. Roman, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (2000). “Calder in Connecticut”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

“I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.”

“The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.”

“Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.”

Source : "When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor". Book by William Julius Wilson, 1996.

“I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys. But I've been doing that now for 13 years so when I was offered the chance to do some comedy, I grabbed it.”

Source : "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.

“I believe that religious witness should not mobilize public authority to impose a view where a decision is inherently private in nature or where people are deeply divided about whether it is... Americans are plainly and persistently divided about abortion and the fiat of government cannot settle the issue as a matter of conscience or of conduct.”

“What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?'”