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.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Plato

Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with.

Alison Larkin

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

George Orwell

I like the good feeling movies.

Robert Duvall

Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.

Jim Hunt

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

Albert Einstein

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.

Elbert Hubbard

Part of my life is saving life.

Dith Pran

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Mark Twain

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

James Van Fleet

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Salman Rushdie

The moment Colin sat down, Hollis asked Hassan, Would you like to say grace? Sure thing. Hassan cleared his throat. Bismallah. Then he picked up his fork. That's it? Hollis wondered. That's it. We are a terse people. Terse, and also hungry.

John Green