Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always the product of skill.

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 softest grass can break any stone in her quest to find the sun. Rise again, woman, RISE AGAIN!

Once you have made the sale...you can stop selling.

You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living.

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.

I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

You don't have to be perfect to be awesome.

But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.