He felt very tired, not from the mental effort, but because he had suddenly seen what the world was like, how there are many lies and truths

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

Jon Bon Jovi

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting it's something far, far deeper than that.

Evelyn Glennie

Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.

George Eliot

Life never end when you are in it.

Lemony Snicket

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Zig Ziglar

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

Aristotle

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

E. M. Forster

Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

Tony Campolo

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

Italo Calvino

I hate being poor.

J.K. Rowling

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.

Alexander Hamilton

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Marcus Aurelius