Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Either you learn from or you are taught by

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?

I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.

I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

Data by itself is not useful. Data is only useful if it can be applied for public benefit.

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.