As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

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.

Those who take Risks overcome their Fears and Tears over the Years.

I prefer to die fighting than living defeated

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate

If you play and work hard then rest hard.

Nobody would ever convince me that the bronchitis and pneumonia were caused by cigarettes.

Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you.

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.

Without nourishing our own souls, we can't nourish the world, for we cannot give what we do not have. As we attend to our souls, we emanate invisibly and involuntarily the light we have received.

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.