"Meditation is very important to me. I feel off-balance when I skip a day."

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

Source : Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

“The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.”

Source : Sir Henry Wotton (1672). “Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems: with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed”, p.35

“I've always felt that night doesn't fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It's one of the best seats in the house.”

Source : Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

“There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.”

“Nothing fans me into such a state of peaceful mental somnambulance as the intellectual antics of a person who displays his learning, not from vanity always, but frequently because it is all he has got; no real sense, no wisdom of his own, merely much good stuff he has learned from other sources. He spreads it like a garment as any other decent person would to hide the thinness of his shanks.”

“Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.”

Source : "Ronald Reagan Dies". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 6, 2004.

“I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.”

“And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?”