Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

My thatha's death was the biggest blow I've dealt with in all my life. I have never seen death in my family, especially not of someone who's so close to me... I might be this big guy from the outside, but I'm very sensitive when it comes to my family.