Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

I've enjoyed the conversations that we've had. [Donald Trump] is somebody who I think is not lacking in confidence.

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

Why is everybody afraid of love?

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.

The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response.

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

Vaster is Man than his works.

There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.