“Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.”

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Art is man’s refuge from adversity.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

The workman still is greater than his work.

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men’s troubles and that will comfort you.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

The good man makes others good.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

Well, there’s a lot to react against!

Abstruse spite bleeds from their mouth. I hear the venom, It’s screaming so loud, And yet so benign Reaction, not roused Their “nasty”, so nice The beast lost its shroud.

Move from reactionary; seek neutrality. It’s the only way to truly be free.

To see the positive reaction to my music makes me feel good.

Decide that you are no longer be a button that can easily be pushed to react.  

I never read reviews. I’m not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.