I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

Fortuitous, unexpected beauty is the best beauty because it is unique, and what is unique is remembered.

I have never believed in supernatural until I fell in love with a stranger that made me do supernatural things.

I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.

Promptly peerless, hitherto peerless and hence peerless.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda.

Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.

If you want it to be, your heart can be your biggest and most powerful muscle in your body.

Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.