For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

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.

Our calling is to exalt the name of the Lord above every other name. God has translated us into His Kingdom and revealed to us the way to greatness so that we can glorify Him.

Often we blame a region's religion when the oppression instead may be rooted in its culture. Yet, that acknowledged, it's also true that . . . it is often cited by the oppressors.

Homework doesn’t end when you receive a diploma. Often, it's just the beginning of your learning.

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me

We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul's life, Love is simply creation's greatest joy.

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

The servant leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve.

If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.