My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Imagination creates reality.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

Adversity tests the strength of endurance.

Anyone young, famous and beautiful who dies young is forever frozen in time and fascinating to all of us.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.

It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.

It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.

When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.