But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted

Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!

My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

Now's the day and now's the hour.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

The leaders have the responsibility to protect and hold in high esteem the law and virtues of the land.

Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.

You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

Usually the things that happen in my life are an easy trigger for songwriting.

Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.

Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.

Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.

The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.

Don't be like a train; don't travel on the same path! Thousands of different paths are waiting for you to walk! Don't be like a train!

Governments never supply prosperity. At best, they can facilitate it, by allowing the free enterprise system to work. Usually they suppress it.