Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

Milan Kundera

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus

Sometimes small things can become very large, indeed.

Rick Riordan

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Thomas Hobbes

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

Jodi Picoult

Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

Discrepancy between theory and practice, which in sound physical and mechanical science is a delusion, has a real existence in the minds of men; and that fallacy, through rejected by their judgments, continues to exert and influence over their acts.

William John Macquorn Rankine

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Garrison Keillor

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.

William Wordsworth

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

Warren Mitchell

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

George Orwell