"My parents really raised me with the value that it's important to give back, and I've always gravitated towards non-profits and charities that work with children."

“There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.”

“People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.”

“I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can analyze its availability.”

Source : "Alexander Shulgin obituary" by Mike Power, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2014.

“None of us are rational economic men as we're supposed to be portrayed in economic theory where mixes of passions, of desires, of moral principles, of self-deception, of altruism, of concern of others, of concerns for ourselves and an interest in our bank accounts. And social policies have to be responsive to the complexity of who we are as people or else, like the war on drugs, they're simply going to fail.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

“A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.”

Source : Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.81, U of Nebraska Press

“When you choose to see the good in others, you end up finding the good in yourself.”

“Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the subject.”

“The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the students know what the teacher expects from them.”