It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

Art is a passion with great vision and cultural expression.

It takes us away from the world of strangersTo a new world of laughter With time the whirled churning deep insideAnd why does the smile fades, as age passes?

I suck their blood, robbing them of life. But each time I do so, it robs me of my soul.

There are some fights none of us can win.

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.

The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers.'

I remember even getting kicked out of a bar once because I was too loud and obnoxious.

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.

I guess a man's best friend is his mother.