When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.

David Knopfler

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

P. D. Armour

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

Vincent Van Gogh

Before everyone stands a image of what he ought to be. So long as he is not that his peace is not complete.

Ruckett

I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.

Sean Connery

I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch, A blind man battering blind men; Or into that most fecund ditch of all, The folly that man does Or must suffer, if he woos A proud woman not kindred of his soul.

William Butler Yeats

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

Jimmy Buffett

Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

Michel de Montaigne

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

Sarah Bernhardt

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

Bryant H. McGill

I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.

George Weiss Rainbow