Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

I love the majesty of human suffering.

To justify one's actions is easy. Acting responsibly and being accountable for actions is very difficult.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

I think I am a smarter player now.

People who listen to my records expect the ballads from me. The rock 'n roll is on there because it's another mode of expression.

The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self.

I don't feel I'm a step above anyone on this team. I'm just another link in the chain.

If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.

I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.