I cannot imagine a truly beautiful world without courtesy being integral to its culture.

God does not stereotype. Each of us is made magnificently unique.

A tiny bit of brilliance rubs off on you every time you interact with someone brilliant.

If you give your best to someone it will most definitely come back to you, often from a different person altogether.

Some people make you feel worthless. And then there are those who make you feel like a million dollars. Ultimately, it's up to you to decide who you choose to believe.

Music makes an otherwise ordinary activity quite enriching.

The best music is that which subtly connects with your reality but mischievously transcends you into an enticing imagination.

Enrich the world with your presence.

You may enrich the world in a million different ways.And you may enrich the world, simply, with your presence.

The length, the depth and the strength of your relationship is determined more by your compatibility in the difficult times than by your compatibility in the better times.

Your business is your life.And your life is your business.

One pretty amazing thing we learned early on was that the more time we spent together, the better our relationship was.

Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

People just want honest music.

Love, first begotten of all created things.

In the very beginning I tried to actualise way too many ideas. The end result was not as healthy a ratio for satisfaction as the current, more mysterious one.

Culture clash is terrific drama.

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

Why should old people get [Social Security]? They just sit around all day doing nothing.

He bit the nape of my neck and I moaned.

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.