I only appear to be dead.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

One of the strengths of the belief in Antinous was its appeal to the most sensitive and inward of mystical natures as well as to the exuberant, joyous and ecstatic sides of human experience.

Do we always do the things that God would take pleasure, or that we do things we think God would take pleasure.

Those who were known as sultans and emperors are gone to dust. Their palaces are now known as ruins. This is ultimate power and commands of nature.

Excellence doesn't mean we have to be 100% better in any one thing: it means we strive to be 1% better in 100 things.

. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.

God is not in heaven - God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple.

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.

The devil did not make me do it. I managed it all by myself.