With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.

Paula Abdul

Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

Source Unknown

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Voltaire

It is difficult not to write satire.

Juvenal

It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to be not as simple as you once believed. And it seems to me that one of the central pleasures of attending school is that you get to read with really well-informed people who can help welcome you into a complex world stuffed with rich and maddening ambiguity.

John Green

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Miguel de Cervantes

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

Henry David Thoreau

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Christopher Columbus

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

Edward W. Howe

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Epictetus

When God created two sexes, he may have been overdoing it.

Charles M. Smith

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

Lee Westwood