Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

The grass on the other side will always be greener.But, you will want to go on that side to check how green your side was.

The best life is a simple harmony between who you are and where you're going.

...was an elegant woman in a city of so many thousands of elegant women...

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.

My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.

Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!

I'm a huge fan of Adam Sandler and used to have Adam Sandler nights when I was younger. And he's so funny on the set.

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.