"You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else."

“You'll have many, many friends, but if your relationship with your mate is one hundred per cent of your heart, you'll never need a friend.”

“We have seen a growing mismatch between the command of media communication shown by the most talented politicians, and the halting, uneven progress which they can deliver through the machinery of government.”

Source : Tom Bentley (2001). “It's Democracy, Stupid: An Agenda for Self-government”, p.6, Demos

“No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.”

“Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable inter-religious wars in Northern Ireland, between Jews and Muslims and Christians in Palestine, Hindus and Muslims in South Asia and in many other places. Attempts to bring about peace have failed again and again. Always the extremist elements invoking past injustices, imagined or real, will succeed in torpedoing the peace efforts and bringing about another bout of hostility.”

“Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.”

“It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what 'Kind of Blue' did.”

Source : "Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece". Book by Ashley Kahn, www.cnn.com. 2000.

“I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible.”

“A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.”