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.

I like exercise. I like a healthy body.

Erin Gray

When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.

Cindy Sheehan

In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

George Crabbe

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

C.S. Lewis

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.

Sinclair Lewis, on sightseeing

It's easy to see, hard to foresee.

Benjamin Franklin

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.Lat: Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerumExtollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari

Juvenal, Satires (III, 39)

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Thomas Kempis

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, Well, what do you need?

Steven Wright

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.

Paul Gauguin

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

Christine Keeler

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

N. R. Narayana Murthy