Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

George Bernard Shaw

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Johann von Goethe

Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.

David Rudisha

A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.

John Pierpont Morgan

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Stella Adler

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.

Eva Green

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

Fernand Leger

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

Ellie Goulding

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

Ferdinand De Saussure

In our lives there is a simple colour, as on an artists palatte, which provides the meaning of life and art. it is the colour of love.

Marc Chagall, "Newsweek", April

If you've been playing for a few years, especially in a group context, you'll see if you have the ability or the passion to want to carry on. It's something that you have to be dedicated to and you've got to love, no matter what happens.

Mick Taylor