Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

There is no honour in dying of something. I would rather die for.For love, for respect, for peace.

The sounds she heard bouncing off the walls around her were those of defeat.

A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.

Most of us would kill ourselves if we were as talent-free as Elizabeth Hurley.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it.

There are people I'll always love to listen to, and I'm always ending up discovering new songs by them, which is crazy. Like Stevie Wonder.

I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.