Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

Time did not compose her.

Your life is your spiritual path.It's what's right in front of you. You can't live anyone else's life. The task is to live yours and stop trying to copy one you think looks better.

The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.

There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

Money is coined liberty.

Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were not-imaginative , tolerant, alert to wonders, life.

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.