There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

The Lord makes you a light. Live as a child of the light.

An open beginner's mind is a powerful tool for developing patience.

wherever there is true love, compromising will always be an unspoken norm.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.

Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.

Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.