"I'm a guy who tries to be successful in all that I do, and when you fall short, it hurts."

“I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.”

Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.55, Canongate Books

“All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people”

“Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.”

Source : Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

“Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they constitute part of the theatre housing the individual's action. ... The egoist uses the elements of the social structure as props in his self-expressive act.”

“Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change.”

Source : "Paula Zahn Now", www.cnn.com. April 15, 2004.

“I don't have a sence of style in real life. I'm more like same-clothes-every-day guy. I don't wear jewelry, I don't wear any of this.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.”

“We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.”

Source : Kenneth Burke (1984). “Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose”, p.6, Univ of California Press