"Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him, all his life long."

“About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.”

“Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.”

“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.”

“Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one's achieve­ments. These alone count in life.”

Source : "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. II, 1938.

“I clean my own utensils, my house and I even travel alone. I don't know what the life of a superstar is like.”

“I never wish to be easily defined.”

“Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.”

“The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.”

Source : "The Bain Debate: How Much Will Voters Care About Romney's Role?". "PBS NewsHour" with Judith Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 21, 2012.