"Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust."

“There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance.”

Source : Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.

“I love a good non sequitur.”

“The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.”

Source : Tracy Kidder (2003). “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”, p.120, Random House

“Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly.”

“Every child should be taught to cook in school, not just talk about nutrition all day. Good food can be made in 15 minutes. This could be the first generation where the kids teach the parents.”

“You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.”

“We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.”

“The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be, but is uneven, rough, and full of cavities and prominences, being not unlike the face of the Earth, relieved by chains of mountains and deep valleys.”