"Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do."

“It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.”

Source : "ZZ Top". Interview with Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 04, 2004.

“An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a conclusion which is bound to amaze the reader and the scholar. Who was Shakespeare?”

“Treat the Earth as though we intend to stay here”

“If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.”

“Learning many things does not teach understanding”

“I think a New Guard-type of Republican - Eric Cantor is a rising star in the party.”

Source : "What Republicans Must Do: Interview with Andrea Tantaros (Guest Interview)". Interview with Bill Steigerwald, themoderatevoice.com. January 24, 2009.

“No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.”

“A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.”