“The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.".”

“Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.”

“Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.”

“Nothing is better than music... it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for. ”

“IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.”

“Happily ever after does not mean they don't experience exasperation with each other, or are somehow exempt from life's hardships and misery. Living happily ever after is hard work, but you do it because you want to stay in love with the other person. Because your life without this one other, very special person would be something not full, but only half-alive”

“It is rooted deep in your bones; the water calls out to you until it causes you physical pain unless you come to it.”