"I had a snowboarding accident. I fell off a horse. I've had a concussion, a fractured rib... I walk into walls. I'm always bruised up."

“"I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?"'”

“It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.”

“There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.”

“My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?”

“My view is that Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks.”

Source : "Spencer Bachus finally gets his chairmanship" by Mary Orndorff Troyan, blog.al.com. December 9, 2010.

“The danger is, you have a formula and you just repeat it.”

“Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.”

Source : "The godfather of urban soul". Interview with Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2006.

“In the U.S., too many yogurts are filled with corn syrup, preservatives, artificial this and that. To me, this is poison.”