"Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs."

“I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it's encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I've been writing a lot of music, so hopefully very soon I'll have recorded a project of my own. I also want to get a boat and open a restaurant.”

Source : "Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas: Can They Still be Friends?". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. June 27, 2010.

“I'm a non-confrontational person. If I order salmon and I get chicken, I'm going to eat the chicken.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Scientists have just built the world's biggest supercollider, and they're doing experiments to see what makes up protons. I hope that if the experiment's successful, the whole of our reality will dissolve, and a big sign will up come that says: Level Two.”

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over to the great instruments of last manhood the skilled bow unbenders and Jesuits of our days, the psychiatrists, who, in the same spirit and as part of the same conspiracy of modernity as the peace virtuosos, reduce conflict.”

“There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.”

“I'm just a proud papa and it's nice to get that validation from my colleagues in the industry. You get up, you pull your pants down and you're like, "Here it is!"”

“The computer is here to stay, therefore it must be kept in its proper place as a tool and a slave, or we will become sorcerer's apprentices, with data data everywhere and not a thought to think.”