"Malick is so far on the other side of the spectrum in terms of his character. Malick is a complete recluse, and not at all driven by ego or championing who he is as an individual. It's all about the art. Whereas Herzog is constantly placing himself into the engine. Malick is such a gentle poet."

“Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it.”

“As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead,”

Source : "Berwick announces run for governor" by Joanne Kenen, www.politico.com. June 17, 2013.

“In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.”

Source : "The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”

“Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.”

Source : Benjamin R. Barber (2000). “A Passion for Democracy: American Essays”, p.221, Princeton University Press

“To regulate something always requires two opposing factors. You cannot regulate by a single factor. To give an example, the traffic in the streets could not be controlled by a green light or a red light alone. It needs a green light and a red light as well. The ratio between retine and promine determines whether there is any motion, any growth, or not. Two different inclinations have to be there in readiness to make the cells proliferate.”

“To me, conservative means believing in a minimum amount of government and a maximum amount of freedom - and keeping government out of people's lives and business - and leaving people alone,”

“Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.”