What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

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.

Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.

Uggs can be as chic as heels for women.

There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.

I'm an A student. I'm addicted to feedback, and I want to please people. That's sort of how I've gotten to where I am.

But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?

I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.

The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.