You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

The pygmies, for example, or the Mindoro of the Philippines, do not want equal rights – they just want to be left alone.

The more you lose, the more you don't win.

Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by

When I hear about something that's hot, I back away from it. So I go and discover the stuff I wasn't paying attention to five years ago.

If stupid hurt, the whole planet would be a world of pain.

Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.

Everyone loves to be loved.

Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their sublime form particularly.

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.