I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

Phil Jackson

I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father's had become, during his earlier years of a miller's life.

Jane Addams

Movies are an expensive business.

Albert Brooks

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.

Vincent Van Gogh

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Dag Hammarskjold

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

Jack White

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for youask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Joseph Addison

An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me!

Ambrose Bierce

I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.

Uri Geller

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

Emma Bonino

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

Brendan Behan