An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

This is the end of the day, but soon there will be a new day.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.

Perhaps there's given up being magic because people didn't believe in it any more.

There is a saying, if any stranger enquire of the first met of Maan, were it even a child, “Who is here the sheykh?” he would answer him “I am he.

We were destined to collide but the river of misunderstanding left us at the opposite banks.

Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

The best weapon is to sit down and talk.

The operas I listen to aren't in English, and I want to listen to my opera after I'm done with it. I want to have the desire to play it on the stereo. To me, the language is part of the mystery.

To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.