If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.

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.

Praise is pushing back my daily worries and impending tasks to acknowledge my always present, never changing God.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

Don't second guess the mistakes you've made, others will do that for you. Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Where there is no heart there is no art.

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

It's much less romantic in that you have to go to www.cia.gov and click "Apply Now." For me it was much more clandestine.

I want to get married before I'm 30. And I'd like to win an Oscar before then.

I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.