I must say, I hate money. But it's the lack of it I hate most.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

My soul was not meant to be in a cage. Not then, and not now.-Alina Chase

Justice is doing for others what we would want done for us.

An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.

Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.

And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?

It's the things we love most that destroy us.

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.