"I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work."

“Stories are the currency of human relationships.”

“I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.”

“You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.”

“I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.”

“The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.”

Source : Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.445, Macmillan

“There are days when I don't want to go to the gym or find myself not super motivated upon arriving. I would visualize myself playing at the Olympics.”

Source : Source: www.ptmollie.com

“If one is okay with police having guns - whoever is designated as having authority - but panicked at the thought of their fellow man or themselves having guns, then that is someone who does not think like a free person. He places a magical aura around whoever is in charge and only thinks they can wield power. This will come up again in other areas, such as letting government make economic decisions but fearing individual people making those decisions themselves.”

“I have always been an independent voice for the folks in my district.”

Source : "Democrats Split Over More Spending?". "Your World With Neil Cavuto", www.foxnews.com. September 8, 2010.