I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Moonlight is sculpture.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

Appreciate every moment because this moment is your precious life.

I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction...my obsession...

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.

Through my years as a writer, I've learnt how to simplify the message and pen songs that have a more specific quality - it's not just about my ego and trying to meet girls.

I would surrender my being to see you whole once more.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.

The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.

Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!