"Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded."

“Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.”

“Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.”

Source : Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.32, Atlantic Books Ltd

“It was the television that turned me to film. My parents did take me to Pete's Dragon.”

“Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow”

“Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green.”

“Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.”

“The greatest trick the rich - and their cheerleaders on the right - ever pulled was convincing the world that class didn't exist. Out here in the real world, it is more real and more rigid than it has been for a century.”

Source : "Britain - a caste society?". JohannHari.com, January 29, 2006.

“An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?”

Source : "Horsley's cross is a painful one to bare" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.