Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.

There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.

Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you.

Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.