“There is a legend about a bird that sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth.”

“Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.”

“It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.”

“Empty Spaces:
After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.”

“The music game is more than just my love for singing, its a sport for me.”

“I walk where once the grass was green
And mourn the lark that sings no more
What bird could sing whose eyes have seen
Broken blossoms on the field of war?”

“He produced a work of art which by its deep appreciation of natural beauty and the melancholy tenderness of its treatment of the ancient legend did more than any single work to bring about the romantic movement in European, and especially in German, literature.”

“The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers and fruits each according to their kind, many birds and little birds which sing very sweetly.”

“People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.”

“But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story…”