"Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles."

“I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.”

“Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 14, 2016

“Americans count on the guaranteed benefits they paid for under Medicare.”

Source : "Five Things to Know About the GOP Plan for Medicare" by John B. Larson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2011.

“It has been said that a friend is somebody with whom it is possible to be silent.”

Source : Robert Evans (2006). “The Kid Stays in the Picture”, p.282, Phoenix Books, Inc.

“Inside each of us is a unique person resulting from millennia of environment and heredity combined in a way that could never happen again and could never have happened before. We aren't blank slates, but we are also communal creatures who are born before our brains are fully developed, so we're very sensitive to our environment. The question is: How to find the support and the circumstances that allow you to express what's inside you?”

“in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.”

“So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.”

“(As a boy) I was listening to Sonny Boy Williamson's (I) records and I would close my eyes and I could visualize myself playing the harp.”