"I think that the loss of confidence in yourself to make good music is what being jaded is."

“I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.”

“Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.”

“People will respect you more if you are honest with them.”

“Successful companies create value by providing products or services their customers value more highly than available alternatives. They do this while consuming fewer resources, leaving more resources available to satisfy other needs in society. Value creation involves making people's lives better. It is contributing to prosperity in society.”

Source : Charles G. Koch (2007). “The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company”, p.55, John Wiley & Sons

“I am confident and I work so hard to be confident. If I wasn't talented, then I wouldn't be as confident.”

Source : "There's little that ruffles Christian Siriano's feathers". Interview with Rachel Beckman, Michael Cavna, www.seattletimes.com. March 7, 2008.

“Everyone deserves good love.”

“So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.”

“No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life--the first twenty years of it--had about them something semi-fictitious.”