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If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.

A record is a message, timeless.

The Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks in our lives increasingly blur the boundary between the public and private sphere.

I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.

Leaders of companies of any size, at any stage of development spend a lot of time focused on growing the business. We develop our game plan and ensure that we are optimally executing on our objectives. We concentrate on looking forward.

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

I went to high school in Lexington, Massachusetts, which in hindsight was very nice.

In the past, great communicators were great orators, but great communicators today sound conversational, and interrupting is common in conversation. And public discourse is now more about entertainment than enlightenment.

India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Life is a jungle, and we may not always have a map for it. Sometimes, it is for the best to get lost and make a house of hope in the middle of nowhere and let the sky and the stars lead you wherever your soul desires. Hope itself is light enough to illuminate the dark paths.

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.

It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture the soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal's rhythm of rest and activity.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Of all the mediums that influence language, I think film is the one that has the most effect. Not so much from the point of view of pronunciation and grammar. I don't think we pick up very many sounds and grammatical instructions from the films we see - but the catchphrases.

We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units.

I'm a fixer by nature.