There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

A truly successful person is not one who achieves his highest ambitions, but one who enjoys helping others reach theirs.

Lord, grant us rest tonight, and if we must be wakeful, cheerful.

Everybody wants to be great at something.

In my life the right question is simply this: What can I do to be happy today?

We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.

If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.

Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.

Money confounds subordination.

I said it jokingly, so this guy was just trying to stir something up that's not there. He's just somebody who doesn't have a sense of humor, like I do.

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.