I have cultivated my hysteria with joy and terror.

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 real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes more than enthusiasm I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

You know, sometimes you can't just take an armadillo, put it in the barn, light it on fire and expect it to make licorice.

Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

A nation without borders is no nation at all.

If you've got any concern at all about animal welfare, you've got to not eat meat.

I don't want to make any huge decisions before I really know what I'm doing and am sure of myself.

It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.