“There is no such thing as happy music.”

“I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.”

“With a heart filled with endless love for those who scorned me, I wandered far away. For many and many a year I sang songs. Whenever I tried to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I tr...”

“You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.”

“I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.”

“Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.”

“If you want to be happy, work with all your heart.”

“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”

“I feel like Ive been split open and stuffed with sunshine.”

“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”

“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”

“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.”

“They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped...”

“And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.”

“I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I've always been like that.”