"You know what's sad about this? Not the gambling, but the best way to reach college athletes is the Cartoon Network."

“All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.”

Source : "What Can We Do In Wartime?", September 9, 1939.

“Sink or swim! You never really feel ready, there is always sometime more that your mind tells you you should be doing. However, the trick is to be able to show up and perform no matter what the circumstance.”

“No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.”

“You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.”

Source : Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. June 7, 2006.

“I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.”

“The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly) of relativistic quantum fields... they have nothing whatsoever to say on the subject of where those fields came from, or of why the world should have consisted of the particular kinds of fields it does, or of why it should have consisted of fields at all, or of why there should have been a world in the first place. Period. Case closed. End of story.”

Source : "On the Origin of Everything". www.nytimes.com. March 23, 2012.

“All that is literature seeks to communicate power”

Source : 'Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected' no. 3, in the 'London Magazine' January-July 1823. De Quincey adds that he is indebted for this distinction to 'many years' conversation with Mr Wordsworth'

“The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.”