Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies

Sometimes, the only way to exorcise old ghosts is to pack your bags and move in with them.

Life is spiritual warfare.

The future depends on what you do today.

We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love.

Never in our silent moments of illusion do we sense the dark parallel that lives next to us. Nor do we suspect the carrier.

I feel blessed to be a musician, and I know it's a power given to me from God that I must use in a very positive way.

Oh Trees, Trees, Trees...wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me.

A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican.

A great deal of thought must be given to your daughter's marriage. Otherwise, she will simply slink off like a cat on a dark night to be fertilized under a bush to God knows whom!

Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?

If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement? No one knows what he can do till he tries.