There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

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.

Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let's keep it in perspective.

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

Those are the men who will dance at your wedding.

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.

The terrorists can kill the innocent, but they cannot stop the advance of freedom.

No friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion.

Happiness is not the result of circumstance. It is the result of loving others.

Attention is the currency of leadership.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.