I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood

Tim Flannery

Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Ambrose Bierce

Money is a poor man's credit card.

Marshall McLuhan

Beauty is the worst kind of lie.

Beth Kephart

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

Thomas Sowell

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Johann von Goethe

At the fruit of existence, there is a single concept of anonymity. This unknown concept is well known however. All one has to do is simply look behind the mirror for the answer. Yet, the answer won't come until the right question is asked. Because the illusions of reality are dressed in endless reflections, the blind will continue to be guided by the blind. The unknown concept is recognized to those who have tasted the fruit of existence, and as distant as the woman trying to grab Heaven from the reflection of an empty pond.

Lionel Suggs

The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

Albert Einstein

I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.

Mahatma Gandhi

My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.

Tony Blair

The only way there could be war is if they start it; we're not going to start a war.

Ronald Reagan

A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Sir Winston Churchill