"God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls."

“Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?”

“Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.”

Source : "Q&A: Tim and Eric Cash in on Their 'Billion Dollar Movie'". Interview with Max Evry, www.mtv.com. February 29, 2012.

“I got rid of all my Colin Firth movies in case they consider it erotica.”

“I was watching an HBO special on eating habits and different cultures, and they showed in China how people eat cats ... I happened to be sitting on the couch with my cat, and once I saw that, it just put everything in perspective.”

“Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.”

“I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.”

“I was doing my music because it was fun, and I always was like, "If it becomes a business, or it becomes too demanding, or if people try to tell me what to do or control what I'm doing, I won't do it."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that.”

Source : "The Life and Legend of Jay Gould". Book by Maury Klein, 1986.