"Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity. What's the point of being realistic? It's unrealistic to walk into a room, flip a switch, and have light come on, but fortunately Edison didn't think so."

“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”

“I don't even do anything super crazy when it comes to eating. The most I would ever do is eat some kind of sushi raw. I keep it real light when it comes to food.”

Source : "Deon Cole on Conan O'Brien's instincts and being chaperoned at a Prince concert". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. February 1, 2016.

“A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning the main aim of his life.”

“Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.”

“We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.”

Source : Margaret Guenther (1992). “Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction”, p.12, Cowley Publications

“I can walk down the street all day and people look at me, but they don't talk to me or stop me.”

Source : "Scott Speedman for “xXx: State of the Union”". Interview with Garth Franklin, www.darkhorizons.com. April 26, 2005.

“Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.”

“There have been misperceptions that we're trying to make all the information open on Facebook, and that's completely false. There are big buckets of information that we recommend that you share with only your friends privately. Then some of the more basic information, we recommend that that's visible to everyone.”