If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

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.

I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is he'll be much godlier after he's dead.

Enjoy losing weight. Enjoy eating healthy, delicious food. Do not wait until you reach your destination to feel good. Take as much happiness and joy as you can from your weight loss journey.

If you dont accept your reality you will not have the opportunity to succeed in life

...I'd come home but nearly everybody does. It's the ones that don't go home that I feel sorry for, they're not happy.

love isnt mortal or immortal. it just is

The Mormons make the marriage ring, like the ring of Saturn, fluid, not solid, and keep it in its place by numerous satellites.

The second coming was an event in the spiritual, and not in the natural world.

It's just that some things more important for this and less important for that, and this is true regardless the style of the art.

Nothing is menial where there is love.

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.