"A bright smile has the strongest electrifying power to lift up the sagging morale and light up a depressed face effortlessly and immediately."

“If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers... I barely got asked to do an interview.”

“It really doesn’t matter how the manager is. If you make a mistake and the manager is calm, you still feel terrible for making that mistake. It helps to have a manager who can be cool but as an individual you tend to be in control of your own emotions.”

Source : Interview with Chris Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com. April 8, 2012.

“The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.”

“You can't always be demanding solidarity from others and then refuse to show it yourself.”

“But here’s the thing: Appropriation occurs when a style leads to racist generalizations or stereotypes where it originated, but is deemed as high fashion, cool, or funny when the privileged take it for themselves. Appropriation occurs when the appropriator is not aware of the deep significance of the culture that they are partaking in.”

“How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.”

“In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations.”

“Is it me, or is the government more concerned about its own tax headaches, than your tax headaches?”