"If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?"

“The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else”

Source : "Brian May - A Regal Audience". Vox Magazine Interview, www.brianmay.com. March 1991.

“I speak African. I can even speak Italian.”

“They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking, offend contrary to this dutie of breast feeding and reflect that meanes which God hath ordained as best; and so oppose their shallow wits to his unsearchable wisdom.”

“To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.”

“I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.”

“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”

Source : Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.190

“The plan to carve up British India was never approved of or accepted by Gandhi...who realised too late that his closest comrades and disciples were more interested in power than principle, and that his own vision had long been clouded by the illusion that the struggle he led for India's freedom was a nonviolent one.”

Source : "Who was Mahatma Gandhi and why are William and Kate paying tribute to him on their visit to India?" by Kirstie McCrum, www.mirror.co.uk. April 11, 2016.

“The world is an inferno. It will burn until every nation has fallen, until all who oppose us are dead, until people see the true light.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2012). “Fugitives: Escape from Furnace 4”, p.70, Macmillan