Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it.

How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.

...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.

Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.

It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.

When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.