Inspiration comes of working every day.

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.

Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of meAnd it starts from the heart 'til it reaches my outer me

Before hurting anyone, especially those who cannot protect themselves, feel their pain with your heart. Take care of them as your little child.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

Never allow anyone to look down upon you.

Letting go of someone you loved wasn't hard. There was no word for what it was, because even if you didn't let them go they were still gone.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

My conversations with God always seem leave him speechless.

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.