Life is a game, you live so you play. Follow your dreams and win what your happy heart desires.

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

Tony Visconti

What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

Jon Krakauer

Some people talk of Africa being a continent cursed not blessed with minerals, but the real curse is the leaders and politicians of Africa

Peter Mutanda

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Ellen Glasgow

I'm too old to know everything

Oscar Wilde

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

Henrik Ibsen

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Lord Greville

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.Memoria certe non modo Philosophiam sed omnis / vitae usum, omnesque artes, una maxime continet

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Acad., ii

When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

Rupert Murdoch