"A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father."

“Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.”

Source : Interview with Madonna, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 3, 2010.

“I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull.”

“I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps."”

“Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.”

Source : David Ehrenfeld (2008). “Becoming Good Ancestors: How We Balance Nature, Community, and Technology”, p.245, Oxford University Press

“Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human — which means its a superpower all humans posses.”

Source : Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.239, Profile Books

“What about Santa's cookies? I suppose 'parents' eat those, too?”

“Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?”

Source : "An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey". Book by Richard Brautigan, p.15, 2000.

“Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead of wisely deciding to mulct the whole country.”