Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.

One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

This Christmas may you courageously venture - toward each new and unfolding horizon.

Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.

After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two.

Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.

Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we are vulnerable.

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

I wear boxers all the time. I don't really move like a girl. I mean, unless it's time for me to get dressed or something.

The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.

I can't concentrate when I'm thinking.