The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

We can only discover our true strength through struggle. Don’t give up. Find out what you’re made of.

Have a ray of sunshine and light with you everywhere you may go.

I'm able to provide for my family and the people that I love with things that I never used to be able to. I'm getting to make music and work with amazing people. I just feel really lucky.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.

One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.

I think nowadays we're often sidetracked by what somebody got popular doing with all due respect to what they do, but it should be about the talent.

If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning.