Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

Paul Harris

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

Charlotte Bunch

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

Albert Einstein

I was born to be married. I just feel comfortable there. I love the idea of being partnered for ever. I love my girlfriend, we've been best friends since I was 18. There's not a thing we haven't been through except for marriage... We've had talks about what we would name our kids since we were in our 20s.

Beth Ditto

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Paul Bourget

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

Walter Jon Williams

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

Publilius Syrus

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

Ausonius

I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.

Orson Scott Card

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

Oscar Wilde

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

H. L. Mencken