There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth--that God knows nothing.

I didn’t mean to fall in love with you, but I did.- Chelsea

I love you, ” he says again, “and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I do.

The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.

All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.

To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

Trust is congruence between what you say and what you do.

I'd love to go and camp out and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere and see how long I could live and survive.

'Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord' means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms.

I never worked with Marilyn Monroe, but if she'd lived, I think she would have been all right. She would have been President of the United States.