One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

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.

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.

It's up to you to make your own destiny and not up to destiny to make you

If you're not creating, you're disintegrating.

Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.

I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

Build on the rock before you hit rock bottom!

A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.

Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.

Inside any deep asking is the answering.

At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.