"Don't worry about what others think about you; worry about what they think of themselves when they're with you."

“The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.”

Source : 1960 'Relic'.

“I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.”

Source : "Kris Allen reflects on 'Idol' upset win". Interview with Brian Mansfield, usatoday30.usatoday.com.

“We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images , not in Plato's sense (namely that they are only reflections of reality), but I hold that these images are the reality itself and that there is no reality beyond this reality except when in our creative process we change the images: then we have created new realities.”

Source : Eidos: A Journal of Painting, Sculpture, and Design, No. 1, p. 31, 1950.

“If you give only 80 percent leadership, your dog will give you 80 percent following. And the other 20 percent of the time he will run the show. If you give your dog any opportunity for him to lead you, he will take it.”

“Consumers could be in for an even sweeter deal, either getting discounts from retailers for using the PIN debit cards or being rewarded by card network by winning money back for using the signature debit cards.”

“But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.”

“I'm going to cure RM." Marcus laughed. "I wondered when someone would finally get around to that. It's been on my to-do list for ages, but you know how things are: Life gets so busy, and saving the human race is such an inconvenience.”

“I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research.”