The good is the end toward which all things tend.

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.

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

this one-way rocket to Death in Adulthood" "Normal Time" in New California Writing

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.

I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.

I think America, really, is over.

Because God loves us, he lets us know exactly how to have access to him.

I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.