"I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust."

“I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.”

“I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t.”

“The idea of difficulty animates us all the time. We don’t want man to be an angel; we want him to be a hero. That is to say, a man like us, but who does extraordinary things. He jumps, yes, but in spite of the law of gravity. And everything he does is always ‘in spite of.’”

“Because U.K. artists aren't compensated when their music is played on U.S. radio ­stations, U.S. artists aren't ­compensated when their records are played on U.K. stations based on the fact that there's no reciprocity. If that income came in, our ­artists would be paying income taxes on it. So if we can get a lot of policy on the radar, that may have some positive influence.”

“Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.”

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

“We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.”

“Mental toughness is essential to success.”

“I like to watch soccer, no matter what teams or players are in the field.”

Source : "Q&A with Spain's Andres Iniesta". Interview with Richard Deitsch, www.si.com. June 02, 2011.