I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

Bono

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

Saskya Pandita

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

John Stuart Mill

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Thomas Mann

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Plato

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

Paulo Coelho

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

Stevie Nicks

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Plato

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

Iain Sinclair

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Louis Aragon

I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Bible

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Henry James