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“In America everyone plays bang ball, eight ball, nine ball, that kind of stupid crap, but in Canada and Europe they play snooker which is a much more skillful game and I enjoy that. I play pool now with friends, if we go to a bar we will play, but I am nowhere near as good as I once was.”
Source : Source: pokerworks.com
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“I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself.”
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“We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and become Earthlings. And as Earthlings, we need to recognize that all the other species that live on this planet are also fellow citizens and also Earthlings. This is a planet of incredible diversity of life-forms; it is not a planet of one species as many of us believe.”
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“If the gospel is old news to you, it will be dull news to everyone else.”
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“The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.”
Source : "A Theory of Justice". Book by John Rawls, 1971.
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“My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.”
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“What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.”
Source : "My family and other actors". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2003. 
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“The transgender community deserves the dignity and respect that most people take for granted.”
Source : "Seattle mayor proposes all-gender single-occupant public bathrooms". www.businessinsider.com. June 24, 2015.
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“It's kind of my intention to be myself on the show. My main priority on FOX is to do play-by-play. Nobody's tuning in to listen to me. If I didn't show up to do the games, people would watch, and the ratings probably wouldn't be all that different. That's not why people are watching.”
Source : Source: thebiglead.com
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“For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!”
Source : "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" l. 15 (1855)
