One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.

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.

We are therefore constantly on the road, straying from one mental image to the next, and identify with these images, and derive our identity from the images.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution

You save me every single day. You are the one thing that makes me happy. You are the only thing I need.

Civilization has made life a humanized jungle, a sugar coated jungle, but still a jungle

Fall down. Make a mess. Break something occasionally. Know that your mistakes are your own unique way of getting to where you need to be. And remember that the story is never over.

Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.

In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.

For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.