We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.

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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

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To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

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Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.

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Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.

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Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

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The sun shines upon good and bad alike.

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Where words fail, music speaks.

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To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live

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