I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Robert Hall

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The firmest proof that Marxism is not science but an ideology is Marxism's attitude to the experience of the real communist (or socialist) societies.

Aleksandr Zinovyev

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

J. K. Rowling

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Plato

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Laurence Sterne

My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.

Edmond Rostand

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

Mark Twain

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Barry Switzer

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

Carre Otis

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Roger Ascham

A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured.

Joseph Addison