Do not make yourself so big. You are not so small.

Ask not for a lighter load but for broader shoulders

What you don't see with your eyes don't invent with your tongue.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.

Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.

The innkeeper loves the drunkard but not for a son-in-law.

The poor schlemiel is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose.

Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help.

The hardest work is to go idle.

Truth is the safest lie.

World is a multi-dimensional reality. At lower level it is full with unconsciousness and competitiveness. At higher level it is full with beauty, bliss and divinity. Focus on higher dimensions.

Courage sleeps within our heart waiting to be awoken.

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord.

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable - and all the time we're being carved, and shaped, and whittled away.

I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.

Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.

... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.