Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.

A timid person is frightened before a danger a coward during the time and a courageous person afterwards.

The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)

It is easy to flatter it is harder to praise.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.

God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depths of the soul.

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being

Scientists have found a way to keep middle-aged female mice from going through menopause. Now they're working on a way to keep middle-aged male mice from buying expensive sports cars.

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

You have to eat oatmeal or you'll dry up. Anybody knows that.

I realized there were no words or anything in my music, nothing that people would have to draw them in a little bit more.

There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.

I obviously love to sing, it's my passion, as is being a mom. Those are the two things that pretty much consume my every day and so I want to keep doing that as long as I can.

In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

Some people reach the age of sixty before others.