Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

I watched the stars and thought of other lives.

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite, people can scan you and drain you.

No circumstance is so big that He cannot control it.

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

He [Death] pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death tapped the screen a few times and all Frank could think was: Please don't let there be an app for reading souls

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.