"I wasn't angry the night I shot him."

“I can't sleep. Too many thoughts running through my useless head.”

“We cannot afford the luxury of self pity. Our top priority now is to get on with the building process. My personal peace has come through helping boys and girls reach beyond the ordinary and strive for the extraordinary. We must teach our children to weather the hurricanes of life, pick up the pieces, and rebuild. We must impress upon our children that even when troubles rise to seven-point- one on life's Richter scale, they must be anchored so deeply that, though they sway, they will not topple”

Source : Mamie Till-Mobley, Christopher Benson (2011). “Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America”, p.8, Random House

“Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

“There's simply too much fuss about myself,”

“The one constant in this ever changing music business is the heartfelt and “ear to the ground” Indie Record Stores that avid music fans and artists alike know they can count on to keep music thriving locally. I tour all over the world, and it's these Indie Record Stores that many times make or break a market. People will always want an “album” to hold, not just have downloaded, and Indies fill that need and then some.”

“I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!”

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

“The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.”

“I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.”