Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.

Kahlil Gibran

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone, it's habit.

Rachel Bilson

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Edmund Burke

The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.

Friedrich Von Bernhardi

A man is to be cheated into passion,but reasoned into truth.

John Dryden

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

Abdul Kalam

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

Thomas Huxley

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Colley Cibber

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

Dylan Moran