Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

It is those that are insulted by injustice that will refuse to be silenced.

The popular culture gives us books that offer entertainment but no ideas. High culture gives us books that offer ideas but no entertainment. The best books manage to do both.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.

I'm not a scientist either, but I can use my brain, and I can talk to one.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

We ought to consider the end in everything.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

My main thing is music; it's what I do.