I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

Vladimir Lenin

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

G. K. Chesterton

History is a vast early warning system.

Norman Cousins

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

Christopher Lasch

Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions...

Gore Vidal, The Decline and Fall

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

Dallas Willard

Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Michelle Obama

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Charles Simmons

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Walter Savage Landor

I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!

Wesley Snipes