“You'll grow devilish fat upon this paper-diet!”

“He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.”

“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”

“In hours of bliss we oft have met:They could not always last;And though the present I regret,I'm grateful for the past.”

“Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”

“Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”

“There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sp...”

“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are...”

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”