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“The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.”
Source : James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: Six Essays”, p.339
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“There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the job was to be done.”
Source : John Shaw Billings (1965). “Selected papers”
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“I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school, I was the type to get good grades, I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there's no school for rap.”
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“My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to keep doing it throughout my whole life—to stay fit and feel good.”
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“Even the Lord had skeptical members of His party.”
Source : "The Last Good Campaign" by Thurston Clarke, www.vanityfair.com. June 2008. 
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“My grandmother had a picture of herself as a close-lipped, silent, reserved individual without curiosity, who never asked personal questions. Actually, of course, she was a talkative, jolly, interminably curious woman, who loved people, and who enjoyed the personal details of their lives almost as much as they did themselves.”
Source : Molly Picon (1962). “So Laugh A Little”
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“When I first appeared, people couldn't figure out whether I was gay, straight, black, white or whatever, and I loved that. I loved the fact it scares people.”
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“Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.”
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“To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.”
Source : Witold Gombrowicz, Dominique de Roux (1973). “A kind of testament”, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
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“My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.”
Source : "My art is a form of restoration". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.
