Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost.
Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.
Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.
We can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness in this life. Or we can allow our experiences to push us forward, to make us grateful for every day we have and to be all the more thankful for those who are around us.
It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.
Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!
O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. When have they not done and said they did it for that?
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.
Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.