I do love a bit of fashion. I grew up around a lot of it as my mum and dad had clothing stores so my mum was always designing a lot, and I definitely had that as an influence.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Mark Twain

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct

Samuel Johnson

Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.

Chuck Mangione

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Billie Holiday

A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nation

Your body hears everything your mind says.

Naomi Judd

He took the last seat, as usual, a subtle reminder of what he was and what he had become.

Faraaz Kazi

There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.

Paulo Coelho

This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.

Joshua Chamberlain

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

Samuel Butler

We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.

Aristotle