you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence.

Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.