A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this., New York Times, April 19, 1992]

Love only serves and does not calculate. Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts. Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.

The main lesson about prayer is just this: Do it! Do it! Do it! You want to be taught to pray? My answer is: pray.

Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth.

Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

I have an amazing husband who is a strong man of God. He is very dedicated to me and our family.

The only thing that's running well in Bulgaria is the Bulgarian Football Union. Unlike the BFU, many footballers here don't run, they limp.

I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.

I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.