I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Jimi Hendrix

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

Steven Rattner

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

Rosemarie DeWitt

I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan and try not to overthrown.

Dwight Gooden

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

Zhuangzi

It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant(Isabella)

William Shakespeare

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

Thomas Cochrane

We see societies establishing themselves, nations forming themselves, which in turn dominate over other nations or become subject to them. Empires rise and fall; laws, forms of government, one succeeding another; the arts, the sciences, are discovered and are cultivated; sometimes retarded and sometimes accelerated in their progress, they pass from one region to another. Self-interest, ambition, vainglory, perpetually change the scene of the world, inundate the earth with blood. Yet in the midst of their ravages manners are gradually softened, the human mind takes enlightenment, separate nations draw nearer to each other, commerce and policy connect at last all parts of the globe, and the total mass of the human race, by the alternations of calm and agitation, of good conditions and of bad, marches always, although slowly, towards still higher perfection...

Jacques Turgot

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently

Karl Lagerfeld

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

William Ralph Inge

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

Margaret Oliphant

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Ernest Dimnet