A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

They were a couple in a way that didn't exclude anyone but seemed superior to every other relationship in the room.

True worship can only take place when we agree to God sitting not only on His throne in the center of the universe, but on the throne that stands in the center of our heart.

A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing - tender, sweet, and stupid.

He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley)

There is a reason why all things are as they are.

I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.

[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied

The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive.