Wine transforms moles into eagles.

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.

The sole duty of a man is to love his Maker with all his soul.

Don't give advice unless you're asked.

The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.

I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood.

That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned.

Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.

The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional...it is theological.

History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.