“For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.”

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.

He is rich enough who does not want bread.

It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.

Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.

Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Preserving your own happiness isn’t selfish.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.

If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn’t need foreign enemies – it will fall apart on its own.

You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.

I love writing songs because I love preserving memories, like putting a picture frame around a feeling you once had.