Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Benjamin Disraeli

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Future

Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoat

Charles H. Spurgeon

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Albert Camus

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.

Janet Jackson

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.

James Lane Allen

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

Toba Beta

Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?

Orson Scott Card

If life gives you a curveball, then be the catcher and catch it.

Fiona Boyd

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Pythagoras

Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.

Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourses