Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.

I feel the healinghands of Godtouch my heartand kiss my soul.

Sometimes thatwhich we fearstrengthens ourspirit and givesus a splashof hope.

Sometimes memory is the only gift we give ourselves and the only hope we have of finding our way home.

Hope is a gift. Use it wisely.

We fear what we most desire.

May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.

May your dreams be gifts from the gods and may you open them with excitement and pleasure.

Nothing stays the same and nothing changes. What is old today will be new tomorrow. What is new today will be forgotten tomorrow.

One must give himself completely to his art and not hold back. Throw caution to the wind. Embrace the muse. Make love to your art.

How little we understandof the gifts we have been givenor the shape of the pathwe took to reach our salvation.

We are capable of learning.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.

I think that the Brexit negotiations have to be a big thing that determines the democratic fight-back and galvanizes democratic Europe again against this rising tide of nationalism.

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

It's hard to keep on being civil when they ask you such annoying questions.

For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.