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.

Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

To me, it's always a joy to create music no matter what it takes to actually get there. The real evils are always whatever stops you from doing that - like if your CPU is spiking and you have to sit there and bounce all your MIDI to audio. Now that's annoying!

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.