Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

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.

Best to live lightly unthinkingly.

Many families think of church as if it was a convention - they send one delegate.

One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity.

Many people have come to Christ as a result of my participation in presenting the Gospel to them. It's all the work of the Holy Spirit.

No policy is worth anything outside of reality.

Ironically, style doesn't come even closely related to fashion. It's got nothing to do [with clothes].

For the immediate future, at least, the outlook (stocks) is bright.

If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.

To save my child, I'd rather go hungry. I got all of Ethiopia inside of me.

Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.