Everything, alas, is an abyss, — actions, desires, dreams, words!

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 took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.

Wait, do they even know I'm coming with you?" "No. But they like surprises. Almost always.

My friends and I are collecting prom dresses to give to girls who can't afford them for their proms.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests

The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves

Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy and ambition, he talked too much.

The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits and at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.