Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

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.

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell Is he who hiding one thing in his heart Utters another.

Never darken my Dior again!

You must go to God's Word to know what is true about yourself.

Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.

As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life.

If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.

Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10%

The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.