I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.

People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

Henry S. Haskins

Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.

Joe Barton

It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

Mark Twain

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

Bertolt Brecht

Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.

Stephen King

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

Nigel Farage

He who sees his life as a process of spiritual perfection does not fear external events.

Leo Tolstoy

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

Henry James

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

John Lennon

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Charles Peguy

Superior to all the religions is the Love of God and superior to all types of worship is seeing God.

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi