I am not a madman or a nut.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.

Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.

I am not a madman or a nut.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

People go out of their way to show the love and respect for me. It is very gratifying.

Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing.

I am proud of my work for my country.

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

The next great step of mankind is to step into the nature of his own mind.

There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.

I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.

I think old people like Hillary Clinton and I shouldn't try and be cool with social networks, you know; maybe she should leave that stuff up to Chelsea.

I wish I could think of a suitable name for the kind of writing I do.

The great thing about the Internet is you can launch a product, and within just a few hours, people will tell you what they think about it.

Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.

With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

The only one I really like is a song called Saccharine.

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.

Washburn built me the guitar that changed my life.

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.

I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search for something perfect.

I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon Valley runs the information infrastructure through which we consume information.

The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.

Silence is golden.

I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

That's where I got lucky; nobody else is doing what I do or really can do what I do.

An argument is like a country road you never know where it is going to lead.

Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind.

I want to keep pushing myself so I never feel settled. I don't really know if it's going to end up working. I'm stressed out most of the time.