Pray to God that He might create is us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us.

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

Life and art are not two different things.

The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

The essence of beauty is unity in variety.

These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I played by heart.

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

A sausage is an image of rest, peace and tranquility in stark contrast to the destruction and chaos of everyday life.

Don't forget to thank everyday for the good things in life. They can disappear in the blink of an eye.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

I THINK the moments we are nearest to heaven are those we spend at the Lord’s table.

If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.

Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.

I get my dance moves from just moving around and listening to music and not really worrying about if it's perfect or not.

Body my house my horse my hound what will I do when you are fallen

Light and subject is inseparable. But when it is well integrated, it becomes the work of a fine masterpiece.

That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.