We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Power is the ability not to have to please

I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so 'actual' in a way, so modern.

I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

There are two ways to change things: Either you are forced to change or you have the intuition to change.

To arrive is to be in prison.

I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.

Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.

What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!