Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

I didn't sleep well last night because one of my ghosts came back, haunting with his presence, and when I woke up, the others weren't here, haunting with their memory.

Ignorance is relatively easy to overcome

[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.

My hands trembled, so I took a deep drag to calm my frayed nerves. I just wanted to forget that terrible sight, but questions multiplied in my mind as the smoke furled.

If you're gonna leave your mark, you can't follow a bunch of sheep, you gotta listen to your heart.

If you are doing things the same way as two years ago, you are almost certainly doing them wrong.

Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights.

The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.

If something or someone's really bugging you, just sit on it. Just sit on it.

Holding a grudge against someone means you think you know what they deserve and you take it upon yourself to give it to them.