"To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better."

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

"What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul"

"He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two."

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent"

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

“Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I had to do was find the one window toward the back where a faint light trembled. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers. I wanted to cup my hands over what was left and keep it alive. I went on watching the way Jay Gatsby watched that tiny light on the opposite shore night after night.”

“Where I went in my travels, it's impossible for me to recall. I remember the sights and sounds and smells clearly enough, but the names of the towns are gone, as well as any sense of the order in which I traveled from place to place.”

“But it has finally hit me: she is neither a concept nor a symbol nor a metaphor. She actually exists: she has warm flesh and a spirit that moves. I never should have lost sight of that warmth and that movement.”

Change your words into truths and then change that truth into LOVE...

“I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”

“I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.”

“’Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.”

“Pleasure’s a sin, and sometimes sin’s a pleasure.”

“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”

“Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil.”

“To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.”

High risk is high adrenaline.

“We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.”

“Never pray for justice, because you might get some.”

“Love your rage, not your cage.”

"Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes."

"Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart."