The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

Your presence is enough to go through life. More and more you observe life, more and more you can let lose yourself with the free flow of life.

This will be our reply to violence:to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

The Godhead is, to speak concisely, undivided there is one mingling of Light, as it were of three suns joined to each other.

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

You need to have honest things in the world. Even if people don't understand it, if it's coming from you, that's already important.

True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse

People sometimes ask me , what religion are you ? i always answer by saying, ''i am a little part of all religions and and a big part of no religion

You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.