The song was wordless; The singing will never be done.

And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.

The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.

The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.

If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

Our perspective is what holds the key to whether the solution is ordinary or extraordinary.

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God, they assume that it's OK for them to do it.

The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.

The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].