Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Peace is always beautiful.
Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.
It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.
Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.
In the end only kindness matters.
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.” I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.