Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

We are our choices.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

Parent may hinder their children's marriage

She was at the same table near the back where three nights ago I'd sat entranced by her songs. And where the two of us had talked like old friends.

It is not about problems, it is about solutions

I've got to think he's the only guy who smiled when he walked up to the podium. I love that about it and he brings that personality on the field.

Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.

Lauren Kirshner creates a first-person narrator you never stop rooting for. . . . [Where We Have to Go] highlights Kirshner as a new novelist to watch. A very strong, original debut.