The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

Life must be lived as play.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.