"Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration."

“Regulations force people to do better.”

“...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.”

“Please repeat: Influence is Not popularity.”

Source : "Please Repeat: Influence Is Not Popularity". www.briansolis.com. August 11, 2010.

“If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living.”

“Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 11, 2007.

“In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.”

“I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.”

Source : Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.334, Macmillan

“I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video.”

Source : "Angel Deradoorian’s Cleaner Side". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2015.