Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

He who laughs best to-day, will also laugh last.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

If every word I said could make you laugh, I'd talk forever...

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

What I really want from music. That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October. That it be individual, frolicsome, tender, a sweet small woman full of beastliness and charm.