"I don't listen to a ton of music other than putting my show together, just because my lifestyle isn't too conducive to listening to music all the time. I like to watch basketball, and I would rather not listen to music while I'm doing that."

“Right now at this very moment we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.”

“Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.”

“Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.”

Source : Broadcast from London on March 06, 1934. "This Torch of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses". Book by Stanley Baldwin, p. 21, 1935.

“Walk more closely with God. Get nearer to Christ. Seek to exchange hope for assurance. Seek to feel the witness of the Spirit more closely and distinctly every year. Lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily threatens you. Press towards the mark more earnestly. Fight a better fight, and war a better warfare every year you live. Pray more. Read more. Subdue self more. Love the brethren more. Oh that you may endeavor to grow in grace every year, that the end of your Christian course may be better than the beginning!”

“Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life span. But are they smart enough to solve the problems of the 21st century?”

“The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be happy with secure income and steady salary.”

Source : Rashmi Bansal (2008). “Stay Hungry Stay Foolish”, p.50, Westland

“Sometimes people who get wealthy when they are very, very young, it's a curse to them. They don't realize it.”

Source : "Only in America". Interview with Andrew Solomon, andrewsolomon.com. September 1, 1995.

“You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.”