The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Smile at your critics for they have yet to see the universe that exists outside the box

As much as I enjoy a fight, I cannot always indulge myself, and just now I had more weighty matters to occupy my time than spilling the blood of strange warriors.

An honest man is always a child.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

I want people to know that there's gonna be a bad part in your life and you have to overcome it to get to the good.