Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

What we call the 'world' and the 'universe' is only one frequency range in an infinite number sharing the same space. The interdimensional entities I write about are able to move between these frequencies or dimensions and manipulate our lives.

The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan, and if people think I am strange, they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

I try not to be influenced by success or popularity.

I think there's a lot of different kinds of love: not just between a boyfriend and girlfriend, but love with your family, love with the people around you. I think that's really important and, I think, would really be a good thing for the world and make a better world for everybody.

'Spring Day' - I wrote main lyrics based on my personal experience with old friends. It is about my sad memories with him, and it makes me sentimental whenever I listen to the song.

No matter what, our American Army is so big, and we are so very thankful to them.

In general, what fans talk about and think about become a very important source of inspiration to us, because we want to write something that's real to people, especially those who listen to BTS music.

I want people to get positive energy from our music.

Life is tough, and things don't always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.

I arranged 'DT Suga,' which I previously used in lyrics, backwards. 'DT' is D Town and refers to my hometown. I like the meaning, and it sounds cool when I say it, so I think I'll continue using this name when I work externally. I also like how the mixtape came out in August.

In addition to being what we are as BTS, we wanted to bring some changes, and we actually wanted to evolve as a group. We wanted to show our many colors, but we still want to console others and give hope to others.

You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners, no matter what our backgrounds, cultures, faiths and histories.

Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.

As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.

The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress.

Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.

With faith and gratitude to Allah the almighty, I declare that tomorrow, Thursday May 1, 2014, will see the enforcement of sharia law phase one, to be followed by the other phases.

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.

I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.