We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians.
A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
I have wanted to have a baby since I was a teenager, but it frightens me. It is much easier to have a dog.
It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
What we share with another ceases to be our own.
It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.