"At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too."

“In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.”

“I interview every employeeand I have 3000 employees. It's an obsessive sickness.”

“Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.”

“There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.”

“Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.”

“There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.”

“I've had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the earth.”

Source : Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.

“Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.”

Source : "Sue Townsend: 'I hate it when people call me a national treasure'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.