"Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed."

“Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.”

“Thank heaven for startups; without them we'd never have any advances.”

“If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.”

Source : "Joe Elliott of Def Leppard". Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2011.

“The United States has a system of taxation by confession”

“All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.”

“One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility. I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote in poems from watching Star Trek but there it is.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Regardless of what you plan on when you fall in love, significant others come and go in your life. Your friends are it. My friends are my everything.”

“It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.”