God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

Mark Ruffalo

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

Wilhelm Steinitz

When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.

Jenson Button

A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.

Source Unknown

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

Geraldine Brooks

I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, or possibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene...

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fiske

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

Niels Bohr

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

Anita Brookner

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

Steven Seagal

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue

William Shakespeare

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Friends are like bras, attached near your heart for support. Foes are like panties, deported, every now and then, when they get dirty.

Santosh Kalwar