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“What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?”
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“To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.”
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“In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.”
Source : Simon Hoggart (1990). “America: A User's Guide”, HarperCollins
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“There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.”
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“If you can’t decide what to do, get on the road. You won’t find the answer. It will find you.”
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“Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.”
Source : "The Billboard Q&A: Yusuf Islam". Interview with Nigel Williamson, November 17, 2006.
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“Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.”
Source : George Matthew Adams (2016). “You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success”, p.15, Ravenio Books
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“For each of us, time is a thief of flory. What give meaning to our lives and deaths is love and hope, if we are willing to share and accept”
