The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.

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.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

Looking at the stars always makes me dream.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.