"My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do."

“Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.”

Source : Shannon Hale (2013). “Midnight in Austenland”, p.209, A&C Black

“The tablet market has only succeeded as a niche market over the years and it was hoped Apple would dream up some new paradigm to change all that. From what I've seen and heard, this won't be it.”

Source : "Hello, giant iPod Touch". www.marketwatch.com. January 29, 2010.

“Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.”

“We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.”

Source : Ben Okri (2012). “Mental Fight”, p.39, Random House

“A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point of time served as a mythologized foil against which to treat the empirical reality of the present.”

“I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“You have to be responsible for the energy you're putting out into the world.”

“If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.”