"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."

“I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just...going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it." - Marcus”

“You can only do three things with your money. You can spend it. You can invest it. Or you can give it away. And if you invest it, you're really just getting more money to give away or buy something. How many things can you buy? So I don't really think there's a lot of choices.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glory, to do either is enduring fame.”

Source : Augustine Birrell (1885). “Obiter Dicta ...: Carlye. On the alleged obscurity of Mr. Browning's poetry. Truth-hunting. Actors. A rogue's memoirs. The via media. Falstaff [by George Radford”

“I grew up with Cinderella. So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-related, and coming from a smaller area in Illinois and wanting to do something greater than myself in Broadway, that was a film that I could really relate to.”

“Some of us were born to take risks...”

Source : "Pop Star Challenges Convention, Rocks Prosthetic Leg In New Video" By Ryan Grenoble, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 23, 2014.

“A miler's kick does the trick...A miler's kick does the trick...”

“I have the talent and the tools to win.”

“In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 27, 2012