Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

You can use the stumbling blocks to build your success.

When I doubt that I exist, I pinch myself.

Because truly big companies don't like taking gambles on small people ~unless it is a guaranteed return.

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

I only have one idol: John Lennon.

To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church.

In terms of actual audience numbers, I honestly had no idea what to expect [with 'Treachery' ]. It was, after all, not a superhero title.

In America, your job determines your marks. In Soviet Russia, Marx determine your job!