"I think I am, therefore, I am... I think."

“The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.”

Source : "Naveen Jain on Rethinking Education: Can We Use Neuroscience to Create Better Learners". www.forbes.com. June 16, 2011.

“Loyalty is my biggest thing.”

Source : "G-Unit was better broke, tony Yayo Reveals" by Rob Markman, www.mtv.com. January 29, 2013.

“You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.”

“In her own special, provocative language, Tonya Bolden gives a voice to the voiceless, a name to the nameless. Revelations abound in Strong Men Keep Coming, her singular take on the endless parade of black men who have fought, sung, cajoled, tricked, worked, wrote, or roped their way into the American experience . She has assembled a most rewarding cast, a phenomenal coterie of role models and phantoms, and she has done a splendid job of telling their stories.”

“Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal.”

“It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.”

“There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop the character of the fiancee. There's another strategy that one can employ, maybe riskier... Make the reader suffer the loss of the character in a more literal way.”

“Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.”