We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.

The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage tie, is of significance to an ideal relationship.

When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart.

it is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.

I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude.

The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest.

Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.

the higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall.

It is always some consolation in sorrow to feel that it is shared, and any burden laid on several is carried more lightly or removed.

Work passionately.

We were miles away from our real lives.

I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.

I literally and truly don't care how many points I score. I get far more satisfaction out of doing the other things that make us winners.

Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.

Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.

A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.