Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

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.

Friends are sometimes the only thing that keep us from plunging into the abyss. But you have to reach for them, and they have to be there on the other side of the cliff reaching out to you too.

Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.

He thinks he's comforting a friend after a bad breakup. Little does he know-he's the one who's breaking my heart.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

Rhetoric matters, but at the end of the day policy matters more.

Fish don't know much about water, and people didn't know much about air.

Educate yourself make your world view bigger, visualize wealth, and put yourself in the picture

Composing music is what makes me happy.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.