"Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems."

“My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read - it was long before TV, remember!”

Source : Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

“I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.”

Source : Quoted in the Observer, 30 Dec1973.

“The Board of Inquiry report fails to recognize that the central problem in the Los Angeles Police Department is the culture. The reality is there will not be meaningful reform in the Los Angeles Police Department until the culture is changed.”

Source : "Report faults LAPD culture for corruption", www.cnn.com. September 11, 2000.

“I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.”

“Inspiration must find answering inspiration.”

“It really doesn’t matter how the manager is. If you make a mistake and the manager is calm, you still feel terrible for making that mistake. It helps to have a manager who can be cool but as an individual you tend to be in control of your own emotions.”

Source : Interview with Chris Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com. April 8, 2012.

“I have been the most religious person since I was 2 years old. I always felt this crazy connection to God.”

Source : "Heidi Montag is now making music religiously" by Debbie Newman, www.mtv.com. June 30, 2008.

“Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!”