“When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death. ”

“The white cat Sal-al was lying on the straw matting in the empty conservatory. She looked at us with a wicked, conceited expression as if all her appetites had just been satisfied. She was beautiful. Vesta and I both said, "I wish I were a cat!" Before we got to the last word we smiled at each other in annoyance, not liking the idea that most human beings think very much alike.”

“When you become a leader success is all about growing others.”

“Holy water cannot help you nowA thousand armies couldn’t keep me outSee, I’ve come to burn your kingdom downI’ve come to smoke you outSeven devils all around youSeven devils in my houseSee, I was dead when I woke up this morning,And I’ll be dead before the day is doneAnd now all your love will be exorcisedAnd we will find your sayings to be paradoxAnd it’s an even sumIt’s a symphonyIt’s a battle cryThey can keep me alive‘Til I tear the walls‘Til I slave you heartAnd they take your soulAnd what have we done?”

“Our culture places a premium on work, not on relationships. Think about it. When we meet someone, our first question is not so what kind of positive impact are you having on the people around you?" No, it 's " what do you do for a living"? It's not "how are you investing in others?" Instead even if unspoken, it's "how much money do you make?" Our identity lies in jobs, titles, incomes,not in our connections to people.”

“I've fallen out of favourAnd I've fallen from graceFallen out of treesAnd I've fallen on my faceFallen out of taxisOut of windows tooFell in your opinionWhen I fell in love with you”

“You took my heart and you held it in your mouthAnd, with a word all my love came rushing outAnd, every whisper, it's the worst, emptied out by a single wordThere is a hollow in me now...And Every whisper, every sighEats away at this heart of mineAnd there is a hollow in me now.So I put my faith in something unknownI'm living on such sweet nothingBut I'm trying to hope with nothing to holdI'm living on such sweet nothing.”