It's difficult to say what's luck and what's not because everything depends on what you learn along the way, and that depends on you as an individual. So I suppose, no, I don't believe in it.

I want, more than anything, to bring some light back to people's lives through my music. The beauty of music is that it is a universal language that everyone understands.

I read to learn. I teach to understand. I practice to gain experience and wisdom.

I love autumn", Emily said to me. "It wins you over with its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.

Other people's children's birthday parties are the most joyful events you will ever resent having to attend.

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but Him, or if we love anything else, we must love it only for His sake.