"The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ."

“Learn today, lead tomorrow!”

“Real men don't use instructions, son. Besides, this is just the manufacturer's opinion on how to put this together.”

“I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit”

“There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any other.”

Source : Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.82, Macmillan

“While I felt very much a Southerner as a child, being Jewish gave me an outsider's perspective. People look at region in a variety of ways, and I always paid attention to food. Food rises above other things for me. From a young age, I saw food as a barometer of cultural identity, and I was fascinated by how people defined themselves through their food traditions.”

“I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.”

Source : "Origin Series: Mad Men And The Walking Dead actor Josh McDermitt". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“Nora said: 'I love you, Nicky, because you smell nice and know such fascinating people.”

“I think the more you have a generalist perspective, I think sometimes the more you can kind of see through the forest and the trees. And when it gets a little bit cloudy, you know, have some sense of, "Well, maybe this might happen or maybe that might happen." So I really am a big believer in liberal arts education. I think it's better - particularly in these kind of uncertain times - to know a little bit about a lot of things as opposed to being expert in one thing.”