"I hate that word 'hate' - it should be banned."

“Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.”

“And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure human rights check, have everything going for them that you would like to have.”

“More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.”

Source : Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.307, Ballantine Books

“We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try.”

“Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about covering other people's songs. They believe that creativity is the intersect of expression.”

“Everything has to be understood in opposition to something else. For some dang reason, the ego prefers to make one side better than the other, so we choose. And we decide males are better than females, America is better than Canada, Democrats are better than Republicans. And for most people, once this decision is made, it is amazing the amount of blindness they become capable of. They really don't see what's right in front of them. Once you see this, it's an amazing breakthrough, and that is the starting place for moving away from dualistic thinking.”

“Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.”

Source : "Al Green: What I've Learned" by Larry Getlen, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.