We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

Love and ego can never exist together, just as the Sun and shadow cannot.

...evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication sympathy and service.

Just the fact that a thousand people in front of me were ready to hear me sing was one of the best feelings I can think of.

Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

I do use my music to entertain myself, as indeed I use other people's music.

Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.

If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.

I already did everything one time and that makes that one time stick out.