Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

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.

The praise and glorification of God doesn't exclusively spring from deep and untroubled understanding

I can walk without shoes and live without cloths, but I cannot live without dignity even for a second.

I'm a demon. I do bad things. It's genetic.

Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.

An unread book does nobody any good

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

I'm a human being before anything else.

Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.

In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction.

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.