My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

The will is never free -- it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car -- it can't steer.

Joyce Cary

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

Rose Kennedy

After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy, but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies, not the same lousy economy.

Howie Carr

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

Molly Ringwald

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.

Horace

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

James Hansen

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

Joseph Roux

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

Charles Dickens

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing,going in circles, mounting each other.Paris is the city of love,even for the birds.

Samantha Schutz

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

Juice Newton

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.

Boris Pasternak