"The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases."

“I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes”

Source : "Sporting world shocked by Pistorius arrest". "The World TODAY" with Timothy McDonald, www.abc.net.au. February 15, 2013.

“I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.”

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”

“It's happened to far too many Americans. You open up your phone bill and wonder why there's an extra zero, or several, on the amount that you owe.”

“I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“You have to remember that about seventy percent of the horses running don't want to win. Horses are like people. Everybody doesn't have the aggressiveness or ambition to knock himself out to become a success.”

“I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance.”

Source : Interview with Paul Mardles, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2007.

“Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.”