Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Science is nothing but perception.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

Nothing you hear or read will be of any benefit to you unless you meditate and digest itdeeply.

Some achieve greatness through people who lift them higher. Others find it when they have to stand alone.

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and theyre like, his hair is out of control.

Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.

North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.

Can you open and close the gate of Heaven and act like a woman?

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.