Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something.

We testify about wonders of the Saviour, Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.

I'm not worried about dying. I consult with God, my maker. And I don't have a lot of problems to work out. I'm pretty squared anyway.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are far more comfortable talking about girls' vicitimization than girls' sexual agency.

It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.

A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?