What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.

Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves

Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

When I open my eyes to the outer world I feel myself as a drop in the sea. But when I close my eyes and look within, I see the whole universe as a bubble raised in the ocean of my heart.

Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.

Food is everything. It provides energy and strength to the elemental self

Happiness is the anticipation of future happines.

And it is seldom easy to convince a person that he is playing the fool.

I like to stay home with my family.

How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.

The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.