Thy treasures of gold Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold; Thy home may be lovely, but round it I hear The crack of the whip, and the footsteps of fear.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.

Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

The grateful heart sits at a continuous feast.

If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great.

It’s in the darkest moments when the cracks allow the inner light to come out.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

Nothing wrong with people getting shot, as long as it's the right people getting shot.

I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

I just don't plan things. I live a month at a time.

I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There's nothing to hide.

I do a lot of running. Bit of squash, bit of tennis. I don't like feeling out of shape.

Nobody in Big Bang receives vocal lessons anymore. We're impossible to teach because we already have very distinctive colors.