My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence

Samuel Johnson

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

Barack Obama

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

Neil Young

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.

Curt Schilling

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Paul Greengrass

How frail the human heart must be --a mirrored pool of thought...

Sylvia Plath

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

Julie Christie

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Carolyn Wells

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

William Jennings Bryan

When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

Edward Teller

It's still magic even if you know how it's done.

Terry Pratchett