I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.
Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.
War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.
How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.