"The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it."

“If timing ain't everything, it's damn close”

“If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.”

Source : Francis Parkman (1960). “Letters of Francis Parkman”

“They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever.”

“Politics is not an issue whether you like or dislike , but every citizen must involve.”

“I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.”

“There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.”

Source : Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

“And I know this world is so cold and deceiving but I keep my head up like my nose is bleeding.”

“I did the Kilimanjaro climb a few years ago, then the six-day trek to Machu Picchu in Peru so this bike ride to raise money for Great Ormond Street seemed like the next big challenge.”