"My big thing is people. I just love people in my life."

“Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes that we are free.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

“I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's too intimidating and derivative to be just totally gobsmacked by someone doing exactly the same thing as you are.”

“I'd love to be able to play all different roles, whether it's Maureen in Rent or Maria in West Side Story. I would just love to be involved in this business forever.”

“There are times when you're tired and times when you don't believe in yourself. That's when you have to stick it out and draw on the confidence that you have deep down beneath all the doubts and worries.”

“I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I've always been singing, and I've always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.”

Source : "McCracken Had No Rock Doubts" by Eric R. Danton, The Hartford Courant, September 1, 2005.

“Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.”

“The message I understood was this: Just don't get caught!”

“You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.”

Source : "Listen to the Admiral". Interview with Ann Louise Bardach, www.slate.com. December 16, 2004.