"My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it."

"I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently."

"I die really well, by the way. It's one of my strong points. I just take a bullet well."

"I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise."

"Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings."

"One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines."

"Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like."

"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."

"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will."

"Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being."

"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

"Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it."

"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."

"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

"It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit."

"My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'"

"I don't feel restless, I just like to travel."

"Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with."

"I've been no stranger to change."

"I guess I just don't see America as separate from Vietnam or Ethiopia. This mentality of 'our team's better than yours' - it's a high school idea. My kids don't see those dividing lines, and I don't want to either."

"I certainly feel injustice. I'm no foreigner to that, whether it's real or perceived."

"I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me."