"I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music. If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the feeling of this? - I can make it my own. So then I try, and I watch it become something totally different. But that's the way I have to do it."

“I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.”

“Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world.”

Source : Scott Belsky (2010). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.74, Penguin

“If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, the Indians, the Chinese, we're all tied together. If one of them sinks, the rest are going to sink with them and if one floats, the rest are lifted up. I find that very interesting.”

“The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind.”

“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”

Source : "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: Volume 3". Book by Jonathan Elliot, 1836.

“My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.”

“Finish. The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and finish. Don't talk about doing it. Do it. Finish.”

“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.”

Source : "Photographers on photography: a critical anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons, p. 66, 1966.