My dream project is a sports film, because I love writing emotional music and a sports film is one of the few places you can do it without being melodramatic.

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.

Economic integration is the path to riches and peace.

Rather than listening to music while you paint, listen to the sort of wisdom that can help grow your career.

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise.

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.

My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that.

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.