My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.

We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.

Lyndon B. Johnson

My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one.

Olaf Stapledon

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Virginia Woolf

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Hosea Ballou

Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

Steve Jobs

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

James Fenimore Cooper

When it's steamboat time, you steam

Mark Twain

I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes.

Rob Mariano

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

Ivor Novello

We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.

Stephen Harper

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

English Proverb