A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky...

It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.

Of course, I know that love is sometimes like that—some men love men, some women love women.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

If you always tell people why, they'll understand it better, they'll consider it more important, and they'll be more likely to comply.

Strength without agility is a mere mass.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush's War against Terror. But my impression is that it wasn't altogether successful.

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.