"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times."

“Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.”

Source : "G3" Magazine, November 2002.

“I don't like to deal with studios.”

“If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts”

Source : "Solitude and Leadership" by William Deresiewicz, theamericanscholar.org. March 01, 2010.

“You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.”

“In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.”

“The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.”

Source : "Sperling, Blunt, Menendez and Huntsman". "State of the Union", www.realclearpolitics.com. December 18, 2011.

“If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.”

Source : TALCOTT PARSONS (1949). “THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION”

“She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.”