"I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others."

“If you're a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you're in trouble, you know how to change. One hundred percent of my game is instinct. I never stop and think I'm going to hit a ball crosscourt or down the line. I just do it.”

“There are multiple things entering in your mind.”

“Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.”

Source : John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.16

“Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.”

“Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.”

Source : Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.34, Ballantine Books

“Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life.”

“I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.”

“When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.”