Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.

A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

We live in a world we ourselves create.

What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned.

Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.

All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

He can’t take his eyes off the stars, but I can’t take mine off his face.

If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves.

Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law.

When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it.

Well, I'm not sure what pop psychology is, but I don't like it.

Suggestion is a literary strategy.

The film industry is a lovely family and I respect it.

Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.