"If you behave like a doormat, expect to be stepped on and don't complain about it."

“I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.”

“Islam is politics or it is nothing.”

Source : "Islamic Revolution" by Bernard Lewis, www.nybooks.com. January 21, 1988.

“Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way.”

“I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are gonna come and break our instruments.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!”

“Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.”

Source : "Ripken Shares 'Eight Elements of Perseverance'". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. April 14, 2008.

“I've always been interested in fashion, the clothes, but I'm not that familiar with the fashion industry; for me it just comes out of quite an innocent sense of style.”

“...you must play for the little fellow in the last row of the balcony who only has fifty cents to pay for a ticket.”