The secret to happiness is low expectations.

Practical wisdom, " Aristotle told us, "is the combination of moral will and moral skill.

The mistake is to assume that the way it feels at the moment is the way it will feel forever.

Much of human progress has involved reducing the time and energy, as well as the number of processes we have to engage in and think about, for each of us to obtain the necessities of life.

If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

There is no love in bullying the weak. There is no love in bullying the strong.

It doesn't matter what you look like when you see in the mirror, what matters most, is how you feel about yourself.

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing - from these alone will I be understood.

I am a musicologist, a doctor of music. Therefore I listened to, studied and analysed a lot of music. I also enjoy metaphors, the art of quoting and of cycles.

Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

I've always had a very broad taste in music.

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.