A silent mouth is sweet to hear.

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.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

When we humans learn how to analyze the messages of the nighttime we open ourselves up to manifest our greatest selves.

I started elocution lessons because I was being teased, and I had a brilliant drama teacher. At the age of 14, I appeared at the National Theatre in 'The Crucible.'

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

You know how you can tell that you're getting really old? Nobody says the word 'death' around you anymore.

There is no way our little minds can comprehend the love of God. But that didn't keep him from coming.

I really enjoy travelling around the world. I get to meet some extraordinary people.

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.