"The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need."

“I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.”

Source : "We're not all ogres". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

“If science is an unfinished project, the next stage will be about reconnecting and integrating the rigor of scientific method with the richness of direct experience to produce a science that will serve to connect us to one another, ourselves and the world.”

“Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.”

“I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else'.”

Source : "Melissa McCarthy's Emotional Interview: Finding Love, Coping with Critics and Becoming a Star – Her Way". Interview with Kate Coyne, people.com. June 25, 2014.

“Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married.”

“The advice I give to all adventurers is to seek a place where they may sleep in safety.”

Source : Samuel de Champlain, Henry Percival Biggar, Hugh Hornby Langton, William Francis Ganong, John Home Cameron (1936). “The works of Samuel de Champlain ...”

“Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.”

“The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything.”