I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

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.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and youll have neither a craft nor a community.

I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy.

I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.

Today, begin to believe right by choosing to know and believe in the powerful truths of God’s Word and in His love for you.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

It truly sucks to doubt your friends when you only have one or two of them, I realized.

Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.