Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, attributed,

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Albert Camus

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

George Bernard Shaw

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

Abel Ferrara

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

Christopher Hitchens

He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.

Confucius

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

Jeremy Irons

The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

Helena Christensen

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

Glenn Hughes

You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Ernest Hemingway

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

Claude Debussy