I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

Claire Bloom

My father was very big on marriage.

Sidney Poitier

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

John Frusciante

Health is my expected heaven.

John Keats

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Theodore Roosevelt

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

Jim Sensenbrenner

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.

James Buchan

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

Vince Gill

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Dr. Seuss