While eschewing emotion - and its companion vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side they will trust your decisions.

I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.

While the spoken word can travel faster you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

I don't travel anywhere without the PS3 and XBox. There's nothing better to do on long bus trips while on tour.

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

To bring up a child in the way he should go travel that way yourself once in a while.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly I renew them I enjoy them a second time while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past and which I no longer feel.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step but most of the time we are taking small seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers people able to put together the right information at the right time think critically about it and make important choices wisely.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

Winning is not a sometime thing it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while you don't do things right once in a while you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately so is losing.

Men talk of killing time while time quietly kills them.

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

I had teen angst for a while but I think every teenager has the angst.

My wife handles all of our technology. So if something goes wrong with the computer I throw up my arms and step aside while the IT gal figures it out.

I had two passions growing up - one was music one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.

While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics behavior blocking and things like that technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.

But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology including the work in molecular biology genetic engineering and so forth.

Accordingly it is our task to ensure that the Government formulates policies that foster the continued development of the IT sector while also providing for citizens' access to technology and opportunity for economic advancement.

While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world.

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology while still at the same time protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and of course designed for nefarious purposes.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.