"The United States is in many ways the biggest ghetto in the world."

“Put up your guards, keep faith in God, I promise you all the world will be ours.”

“I really don't get nervous when I perform -it's more of an exciting feeling than anything else. But put me in a classroom with kids my age and have me take a test and yeah, I'll be nervous!”

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

“Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.”

“There are things I want to do to be a better human being and a better father.”

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

Source : "Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence". Interview with Noel Tichy and Ram Charan, hbr.org. September/October 1989.

“Detroit is a metaphor for America, for America's challenges and America's opportunities. It is a hothouse for new innovation, for ingenuity and risk taking. That doesn't happen in a lot of American cities. We need to be in Detroit because of that.”

“In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my success in America has come at the expense of what I do. I haven't sold out, and I haven't taken the popular road to writing a best-selling book. I've really bucked the system. So it was necessary for me not to go and find the easy fans, the ones who want something digestible and fast with a happy ending that they can read over and over again no matter how many different books it is. I had to find fans who really wanted to think. Worldwide they all have that in common.”

“The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.”

Source : Louis Theroux (2009). “The Call of the Weird: Encounters with Survivalists, Porn Stars, Alien Killers, and Ike Turner”, p.111, Da Capo Press