Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.

We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?

Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.

The gods made the world round so that we could never see too far into our own futuer.

I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.

Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.

It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!