"You got to realize; you're the Devil as much as you're God."

“Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like”

“To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.”

Source : "Economic Challenges: Past, Present, and Future". Speech at the Dallas Regional Chamber, Dallas, Texas, www.federalreserve.gov. April 07, 2010.

“Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.”

“For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.”

“In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.”

“As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.”

“I liked to drive by the clusters around the county and think about the women I placed there.”

“He caught me stealing his golden phoenix.' Tithonus closed his eyes briefly. 'Good grief!' He opened them again. 'I was half hoping it wasn't true. Have you any idea of the implications?' 'He was mistreating it!' Pyrgus protested. 'Of course he was mistreating it. This is Black Hairstreak we're talking about. He mistreats his own mother. I don't suppose you stole her as well?”