When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

There is no Soul, where there is give and take. Wherever there is give and take, it is a stock market.

It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.

The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.

Always think about practice... theory is not the endpoint of work, it is the work along the way to work.

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter.

Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.

I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things when I was a kid.

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be.

I don't feel like I can change the world. I don't even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering.