If you can make someone laugh, even for a moment, you have made their day a little bit brighter.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.