Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.