Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

Success without happiness and health is not success.

All this while I kept thinking where did I go wrong, all this while he wasn't mine to lose.

There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

England is the first country that I've had a no. 1 album in, so it is now officially my home away from home.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

I don't think that money makes you any better brought up than I was.