“Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house – do not pass by like a dream.”

Never be afraid of the moments–thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.

Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house – do not pass by like a dream.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

We live in the world when we love it.

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.

Neither one of us could be sure we’d get our money back on this investment, but we just wanted to have company of our own for once because we were best friends.

I’m always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

I really love music and I want to make it better the best I can.

I wanna be the best at what I do. I wanna sing, I wanna dance, I wanna act. That’s about it.

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

I don’t feel I made any sacrifices at all. I’m doing my best to juggle.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There’s more of a chance then that they’ll survive.