For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

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.

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

If you notice that devil hinder your work or demons disturb your family etc., then address them and cast them out of your circumstances

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

If I had to do it over again, I'd probably play the game the same way.

All the things that people like me supposedly don't do, I do.

I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.

It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed only toward serving the wishes of consumers.

My heart and prayers go out to every individual

Forget Halloween - Halloween to me is like every day. It's a lifestyle.