An open mind and heart usually lead you to those who have the same.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.

Dance must have a precision without fault.

What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.

People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.

I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being.

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.

The amateur tweets. The pro works.

I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.