"We have a historic system in place since the early part of the last century and this is going to be one of the biggest battles in California if we decide to take it on."

“A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.”

Source : Tom Freston’s Commencement Address at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, May 27, 2009.

“[Through the making of Dream of Life] I learned about being patient, perseverance, having a dream, a goal. I learned that I can accomplish something despite not knowing anything about it when I begin.”

“Free enterprise is the sure and so far the only known way of constantly improving the well-being of mankind.”

“I think some people have a different idea of what the band Young the Giant is. We're normal guys. We're down to earth. We like doing other things besides music although for the past three years music has been our life. We're not trying to be too pretentious. Some people take that as a red flag. They say, 'these guys are boring' or 'they don't have anything flamboyant or left field-ish to say,' but if they don't like that then they don't like that. That's who we are. Just even tempered people. We're not too crazy.”

“The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.”

“God didn't create you to be average. You were created to excel You have everything”

“I would be a vegetarian if the food was better.”

“Be aware that rigidity imprisons.”