There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

One is very crazy when in love.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.