God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

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.

This is the twenty-first century - you have to know what you want, then set upon it with everything you've got.

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.

I may … surprise you - but I shall not deceive you.

The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

Be the best of whatever you are.

Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

...Go live ITM." ITM?" In the Mo," Beth elaborated.

In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.