I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

Salvation is sanctification of soul by the Blessed Saviour.

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.

I really believe in completely being naive and having high hopes when meeting someone new. I can kind of re-do my stupidity or my naivete.

If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.

You and you alone are responsible for taking actions to create the life of your dreams. Nobody else can (or will) do it for you.

It's like the mafia. Once you're in - your in. There's no getting out.

I still haven't come to grips with our success.

Better a good enemy than a bad friend.