Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.

Trevor Rabin

The business of the law is to increase the business of the law

Charles Dickens

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

Lawrence Durrell

When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.

Dejan Stojanovic

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

Armistead Maupin

What we will be seeking... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity.

Kurt Vonnegut

The true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

J.K. Rowling

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Søren Kierkegaard

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

Henry Rollins

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

James Barrie