Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

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.

Discipline Your Mind to Think Positively: Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.

...because all happiness is contagious, and disarms the spirit of hatred.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

Growing up is the greatest adventure of all.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

It's important to do things that scare you to death!

Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride.