In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.

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.

The queers could almost pass for the same species as the straights.

Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.

Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Good Night Sweet Prince and a flight of angels sing to thy rest.

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.

[Advice to Bessie Smith:] Let your soul do the singin'.

I hate the way chorus boxes sound

There is a pleasure that is born of pain.