Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.

I truly never saw myself doing anything other than music. There was nothing else that brought me this much joy, but also this much frustration.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

If depression has taught me one thing, it is this: what a rare and beautiful treasure is the simple human gift of joy. For me now, joy - our capacity to delight in one another and in the world - is the reason why we are here. It is as simple as that. And I feel compelled to spread the word.