"Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife."

“I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.”

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

“No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.”

“We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.”

“I feel like [terrorism] acts are un-Islamic. So to see that happen and somebody do that in the name of God, it just - and the religion that you practice, it just - it hurts your heart so deeply because it's such a misrepresentation of the faith.”

“As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.”

“Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.”

Source : "Metallica's Kirk Hammett discusses vintage horror and geek bonding". Interview with Kenny Herzog, www.avclub.com. October 5, 2012.

“Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as certainly wrong, but so venial as scarcely to deserve censure.”

Source : William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1869). “History of European morals: from Augustus to Charlemagne. II”, p.23

“Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.”