“What you are about to read is not an aberration: it can happen in your local university too. The Big U, simply, was a few years ahead of the rest.”

“Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame… at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.”

“Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.”

“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.”

“You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.”

“My big brother was B.I.G.'s brother
So here's a few words from your kid brother
If you admire somebody you should go ahead tell 'em
People never get the flowers while they can still smell 'em.”

“Everyone's talked about Bank of America and Citigroup and the rest being too big to fail, but no, no, no. The most important point…is that the US must be perceived to be too big to fail.”

“What can happen in a few minutes changes you forever.”

“Self-realisation is the highest knowledge you can ever seek into your life—The rest are simply facts.”

“History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.”