When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

While you wait for your dream job, you can engage yourself with the available job.

What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools?

Take a chance on me and I will prove how worthy your life is.

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

Love can be sordid only if you work at it.

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

Let us seek to live in a way that is always worthy of our Christian vocation

My advice to anyone wanting to get into the music business, is always be ready to learn and remain humble.

I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and f - king whoever we wanna f - k.