A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

ScrapsThe scraps from the meal of the Emir are larger than the gifts of halwa from the merchant. Timur Fazil

To discern profits only when it is within the ken of the market herd is not the acme of investing excellence

I think that our leadership, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, are taking the right approach.

They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles.

I was always empathetic with animals. It's a terrible and self-involved point of view that we do something because someone else is exploitable.

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.

I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?