A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult

Samuel Johnson

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

C. Wright Mills

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

Maria Montessori

It's a question to ask ourselves if we're not mad. But who are the madmen, in God's name? Those who wonder about it, or the others? If we ever began to speak out loud, what would they do with us, tell me?

Victor Serge

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

Samuel Butler

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

B. C. Forbes

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Henri Nouwen

I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.

Glenn Hughes

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Henry S. Canby

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Christian Nevell Bovee