I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a president who has demonstrated through his demeanor and through his deeds that he is uniquely qualified to heal our divisions, rebuild our nation and lead us to a brighter future together.

Charlie Crist

I'm of the opinion that science fiction writers suck at predicting the future. We mostly go around describing the present in futuristic clothes - (such as) Mary Shelley, Bill Gibson, and many others.

Cory Doctorow

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

Karen Armstrong

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Oscar Wilde

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Here are the Top Ten things that your parents say to you:-Is that all you're going to do all day, sit in front of the computer?-When I was your age I had two jobs.-Why don't you wear some clothes that fir for a change?-Turn it down. I can hear it all the way over here.-You're not eating that for dinner.-Did you do your homework?-Stop mumbling and speak up.-Now what did you do?-Because I said so.-No.

Charles Benoit

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

Tony Campolo

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Plato

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Peter Marshall

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Euripides

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Charles de Montesquieu