“I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and - for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.”

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”