Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.

One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

The moment is supreme.

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

Our castle is not imposing but is well built and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiffs house.

The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.

I want you for always days years eternities.

I want you for always...days, years, eternities.

I want you for always, days, years, eternities.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.