The most important time is Now

Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.