I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!

If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar..

You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak— that I think about it all day long— that I like experimenting— studying— reflecting.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love love love that is the soul of genius.

I write as a sow piddles.

We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.

I can and I will! Just watch me!

We all have a little entrepreneur inside of us. Wanting to leverage it is what gives us an entrepreneurial spirit and an entrepreneurial mind. Actually doing it makes one an entrepreneur.

A great life starts and steadies with a great mind that is open to new ideas, fierce in defense of truth, and always eager to learn.

Perspective is a gift nowadays.

I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

I like having a routine, because everything else is so unpredictable.

A team aligned behind a vision will move mountains

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

Basbanes makes you love books.