All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

The unfamiliarity of the subconscious mind can turn one into one's worst enemy of happiness and success.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

If you have a pack establishing dominance in an area that involves such physical exertion, you're sucking the life out of the opposition.

Sometimes it is my impression that most politicians are still not aware of being under the control of the financial markets and are even governed by them.

I think I'm much more comfortable talking about other books than my own!

I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, "Let's start the year off together," and then we wound up breaking up the night after!

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

The Classic Notting Hill junkie, i.e; Armani underwear, Pink's shirt and Burberry belt tourniquets

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.