Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

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 am only a child yet I know if all money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers, ending poverty, and binding treaties, what a wonderful place this Earth would be.

I love you’ is validated with action.

We live in a world where people say that you can believe anything you want about God.

You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the contrary history has a natural continuity which must be respected

I like bringing smiles to people's faces.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ).

I think theres too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.

If you care about [the characters] as if they were real, that always helps.

Women alone stir my imagination.