If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?

You put your time where your priority is.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

If only humans could die like the autumn leaves, with a splash of beauty and the promise of another season.

I always listen to what I can leave out.

I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .

It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.

I only miss you when I'm breathing.

Politics, of course, requires sweat, work, combat, and organization. But these should not be ugly words for and free people.

Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.

If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.