Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

Everything in life is not all beautiful, not all fun. There is lots of killing and drugs. To me, a perfect album talks about the hard stuff and the fun and caring stuff.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.