All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

It's my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy.

I work 'cause I have to pay the bills. But I also work 'cause I love it. I don't know what I'd do with me if I didn't have this work. It's what I've done all my life. It's my motivation. It's my satisfaction. It's my joy to stand in front of an audience to sing, to come back home and write songs. Man, it's amazing for me.

It's a really skewed part of our culture that happiness is the end-all be-all. The people that force themselves to be happy all the time often end up being the most broken.