Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'

What can I do?” he asked. “To start taking care of you?

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

It's not easy to know who you are and it's very painful and takes a lot of time and that is why a lot of people don't want to put in the effort.

A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last long and you're quickly discarded.

What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?

Every company has a rocky beginning.

Taeyang's [music] is like hamburgers. He'll produces various flavors while staying within the boundaries of them being hamburgers such as a chicken burger and shrimp burger.

The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it," I say. "Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care.