Without music, life would be a mistake.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated.

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparent world.

to have to combat one’s instincts—that is the formula for decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one.

I found that things are always easier when I do them with love.

I don't believe in miracles, only unexplained facts.

Bells ringing with no soundLaughter with no voiceHappiness lost without being foundMaking love with no noise

Lane tipped his head nearer so their foreheads gently touched. "I want you more than I've wanted anything in my life, " he said, his voice low and husky. "More than I thought it was possible to want.

It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

The way it works for us is, when I watch a character and I connect to a character, I'd love to bring them back and see them again.

Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

When your mind drifts away from one of the secret meditation techniques, do not become upset or frustrated. Gently move your mind back to the technique you were practicing and begin again.