Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.

If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.

To speak another language is to have another soul

Make us eternal truths receive, And practice all that we believe: Give us thyself, that we may see The Father and the Son, by thee.

Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks.

I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

Not that I have anything against music now, but I just hated being an anything. I don't know why.

People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.

I'm not afraid to be a Russian Jewish romantic in my approach to anything, even in my animal divinities, or anything about the feeling.

I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.

A smile is a God given sun that lights up our lives in the midst of darkness

She came from the most worthless of classes - the rich, with a smattering of culture.

One Fails Before One's Perception...!

Time is bunk.

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

Oh good gray head which all men knew!

There’s nothing like music to teach you that eventually if you work hard enough, it does get better. You see the results.

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.

As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, “Look, he's still moving!