England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Stop pointing fingers and placing blame on others. Your life can only change to the degree that you accept responsibility for it.

Life is for a specific mission.

When I put out the records, when I make a distribution deal, those distributors tell me who they sell it to and how many copies. So I want nothing less.

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.

I spent four indifferent years at Goodison, but they were great years.

Being grown up is boring. Besides, I don't get jazz.

How do you see those tree?... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with pure ultramarine. Those red leaves? Use vermillion.

All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.