Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Eat to live, and not live to eat.