There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.

Meditation is act of thinking purely.

I look down at his beautiful face, shining with so much love and admiration for me, and I know that every struggle I’ve faced up to this point has all been worth it, because it led me to him.

Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!

The only defense against stupid is distance.

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death.

As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.