... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

Time did not compose her.

It isn’t what you don’t know that’s the problem. It is what you’re unwilling to ask.

I want to keep living in this beautiful dream-world of ours.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.

Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous.

Genre is a minimum security prison.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.

One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.

People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.