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

It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental organization under which power may fall, and does fall, into the, hands of the worst men.

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry to assist each other in this task. The most selfish and hateful life of all is that of two beings who unite in order to enjoy life. The highest calling is that of the man who has dedicated his life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman in order to further that purpose.

...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away

There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.