There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

Laugh because that is the purest sound.

Love is simply creation's greatest joy.

We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!

The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.