It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

Eddie Van Halen

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Oscar Wilde

Offer unto me that which is very dear to thee -- which thou holdest most covetable. Infinite are the results of such an offering.

Bhagavad Gita

Win or lose, playing at all is winning.

Wolfgang Nording

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wod

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Nelson Mandela

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.

Samuel Gompers

The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space.

George Gordon Byron

Must I go bound while you go freeMust I love a manwho doesn't love meMust I be born with so little artAs to love a man who'll break my Heart

Cassandra Clare

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Julius Caesar