It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense of humour like me.

Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.

Cecilia Bartoli

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

Francois Rabelais

Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you.

Vanna Bonta

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Ernest Dimnet

By guts I mean, grace under pressure

Ernest Hemingway

Trusting too much to others' care is the ruin of many

Benjamin Franklin

I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

Bruce Springsteen

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Nick Gorski

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Marian Anderson

...who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

Neil Gaiman

Male bashing is everywhere. It would be a mistake to view the current situation as another skirmish in the war between the sexes. Women have been doing the shooting, and men have been burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets will miss.

Warren Farrell

Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Elaine N. Aron