Never declare fate your enemy

Some people just live out their whole lives with some sort of ache in their heart they never resolve.

Love in France is a comedy in England a tragedy in Italy an opera seria and in Germany a melodrama.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more - the feeling that I could last forever outlast the sea the earth and all men.

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

Since I was 15 years old, all I wanted was to find the guy I was going to marry.

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

The only critic is a full house.

Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

History is the study of the world's crime

Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.