The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

Happiness means knowing how to limit some needs which only diminish us, and being open to the many different possibilities which life can offer.

The ultimate form of forgiveness is in comprehending there’s nothing to forgive.

I might not be in a relationship anymore, but I don't believe that people should have to lie to themselves just to make somebody else feel good.

Any officer can get by on his sergeants. To be a sergeant you have to know your stuff. I'd rather be an outstanding sergeant than just another officer.

Rejection is the natural course of things.

If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.

It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.