It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

Peter Ustinov, Interview by Wend

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Julian Casablancas

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

Martin Heidegger

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Phyllis Diller

I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.

Mark Spitz

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

James M. Barrie

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Yiddish Proverb

People see his pleasure-ground; him no one sees at all.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

It's a question to ask ourselves if we're not mad. But who are the madmen, in God's name? Those who wonder about it, or the others? If we ever began to speak out loud, what would they do with us, tell me?

Victor Serge

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

James Russell Lowell

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

George Orwell