People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

David Hume

To be or not to be.

William Shakespeare

Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.

Andy Warhol, From A to B and Bac

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

e. e. cummings

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

William Blake

One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

Mother Theresa

Since turning professional at 18, I have travelled the world playing the game that I love and consider myself a global player. As the World No.1 right now, I wish to be a positive role model and a sportsperson that people respect, and enjoy watching.

Rory McIlroy

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

John Sterling

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Emile Zola

I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.

E. O. Wilson

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus