"Faith is a great gift to have."

“The words of Jesus, including those Jefferson and the Jesus Seminar have blue-pencilled, have a unique permanence. They don't merely survive as aphoristic wisdom; they have an authority in our hearts, even when we try to deny them. They command. We can obey or rebel. That is why Jesus is still not only loved but hated - and why those who hate him feel they have to profess to love him.”

“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”

Source : Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

“The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.”

“I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures”

“American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.”

“A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.”

Source : "Twister" by D. T. Max, www.newyorker.com. March 16, 2009.

“But, you never know when The Libertines is going to come along.”

“I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.”