"There`s no confirmation process for the staffers that the president puts around him at the White House. Those are the people he chooses to have around him and to listen to."

“Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts.”

Source : Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.18, Penguin

“You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime.”

Source : "Fictional character: Burt Munro". "The World's Fastest Indian", 2005.

“Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next.”

“It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.”

“Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they want to do, which is probably music. The oddity of being a critic is: You don't get a diploma, you just decide you're a critic. If someone listens to your opinion rather than their own, it's their mistake. Any critic's top 10, any year, it's something controversial or something that will make them look hipper-than-thou. The whole critic game, we've never played.”

Source : "Kiss: Miley Cyrus is 'being treated unfairly'". Interview with Daniel D'Addario, www.salon.com. September 12, 2013.

“I think that there comes a point in the life of every young person to break away from the intimacy that they share with their parents. It is not to say that the intimacy is lost, but that it needs to change as children forge an autonomous identity and make their way into the adult world.”

“Without even knowing, a person goes around scattering their heart. That's why if you're with a smiling person, you end up smiling with them.”

“Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.”