Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

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.

Measure your day not by the money you earn but by the love you're giving away.

Leaving others alone is a sign of cowardice, whether you are involved in a war or in a relationship.

If you don't doubt it, be 'bout it. Intuition is soul's watchman.

I have played so many romantic roles that I don't know if I am really a romantic in real life. I get confused about the real me.

When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, that doesn’t mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are unimaginable.

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

I work hard at it [delivery of lyrics], just like I worked hard at getting my masters degree. It's not just something I sit down and do. You have to learn and keep learning.

Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.

Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.

The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.