"Talent matters. Systems matter. Strategies matter. We can't just bring nice people together and think we're going to solve the world's problems."

“I can't see any separation between my music and my life. I play pretty much race music: its about what happened to my father, to me, and what can happen to my kids.”

“It's official. Highway patrolmen are not susceptible to the Jedi Mind Trick.”

“One volcano puts out more toxic gases - one volcano - than man makes in a whole year. And when you look at this climate change, and when you look at the regular climate change that we all have in the world, we have warm and we have cooling spells.”

Source : "Raese to Bank on Cap and Trade Against Manchin" by Scott Conroy, Erin McPike, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 27, 2010.

“The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.”

“Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.”

“Remember that not everyone is as strong as you are. Be mindful of human weakness, and of the fact that it may be more important, in the long run, to get many people taking steps in the right direction than to have fewer achieving the ideal.”

“Magick may be no more than the willful invocation of awe.”

Source : Caitlín R. Kiernan's blog entry (greygirlbeast.livejournal.com), December 11, 2006.

“Business and investing are team sports.”