Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

Those you know the least may need your prayers the most. Don’t let the fact that you don’t know someone keep you from praying for them.

Unhappiest is the person who feels happy when seeing an unhappy person!

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the common good.

What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.

He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true

To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously.

My message is to forget about dichotomies. The Brain Opera is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voices - so I do consider it an opera.