Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

Love is the symbol of eternity.

Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

Prayer is the life of the soul.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.

Focus on the POSITIVERecognize the BLESSINGSFind the HUMORHope for the BEST&Brace yourself for the worst.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence.

The walls of pride are high and wide, can't see over to the other side.

You know you're lazy when you run out of toilet paper and use the cardboard roll to wipe with.

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

Exercise is an unnatural act.

... sometimes I can feel it, the way we are pouring slowly toward a curve and around it through something dark and soft, and we are bound to each other.