There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.

Toots Thielemans

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

Romain Rolland

Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.

Samuel Johnson

One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.

Andrew Weil

Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.

Herman Melville

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

Johann von Goethe

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

E. M. Cioran

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Norman O. Brown

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough

Robert Heller

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

William Blake

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

André Gide