It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

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.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke.

Science is what you know philosophy is what you don't know.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

First, there is the law. It must be obeyed. But the law is the minimum. You must act ethically.

Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever.

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!

Positive people with positive attitudes ignites energy in me

You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.