"I'm very happy with the things I do. Maybe I'm just lucky I like to do so many things. I don't remember any musical job that I did only for the money. Even when I worked as a music supervisor on cruise ships I did it for romantic reasons. When I work for TV it's because I want to."

“I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.”

“Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.”

“Often I combine many sources to create one painting, so it is not usually one particular experience or moment that leads to its creation. I think most artists are just open nets and catch all sorts of inspiration along the way of our daily lives, and that all comes to together in strange and different ways in the studio.”

“It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.”

Source : Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.1

“The way we have to measure progress is not, "Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?" It's, "How does the majority of our country respond?"”

“But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.”

“Happiness is a rare cosmetic.”

Source : George John Whyte-Melville (1872). “The White Rose”, p.22

“Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?”