"success is 99% failure"

“Out of the mists of our long oppression, / We bring love for ourselves and each other, / And love for the gifts we bear, /So heavy and so painful the fashioning of them, /So long the road given us to travel them. A separate people, /We bring a gift to celebrate each other, /’Tis a gift to be gay! / Feel the pride of it!”

“Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.”

“But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.”

“We don't have a choice about Facebook any more. The choice element is less obvious than it seems. Maybe the 1bn poor people and a few hundred thousand rich people can afford not to be on it.. the rest of us don't have any choice.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com

“Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.”

Source : "Brian Eno: Success ruins artists". Interview with Davide Mitchell, www.salon.com. October 2, 2011.

“[Andy Murray] tries to get you to do a lot of different things. He tries to throw you off by giving you some slower balls and some harder balls.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk

“People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.”

Source : Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1916). “Nothing Matters, and Other Stories”

“Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.”