"Everyone's got a different story."

“I clip coupons all the time. Why should you pay more for something that someone else is paying less for?”

“I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.”

Source : "Celebrity Collector: Brian McKnight". Interview with Reyne Haines, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

“Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.”

“If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification.”

Source : "The Chip War : The Battle for the World of Tomorrow" by Fred Warshofsky, (p. 21), 1989.

“Seeing the rebirth of the Delaware Estuary as a valuable natural resource is certainly encouraging, and I am encouraged not just by the progress made in the Delaware Estuary but in estuaries throughout the country.”

“Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?".”

“There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.”

“What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and I’m trying to represent the feelings that I’m feeling as purely as possible”