We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!

If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar..

You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak— that I think about it all day long— that I like experimenting— studying— reflecting.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love love love that is the soul of genius.

I write as a sow piddles.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

When you’ve been given a curse of perspective you don’t stop to consider the gift of oversight that most humans have been bestowed with.

I don't want the world to define God for me. I want the Holy Spirit to reveal God to me.

Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.

People can and do change.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.

Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.

Every day, I wake up and I'm like, "Oh, I'm the star of my own show that has my name in it and I get to write it and hire actors that I've loved for such a long time!" It's amazing!

all we have is our deep and abiding love for each other. We can't loose that or we loose ourselves. If we don't help each other, who will?

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.