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

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.

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.

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.

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

The line between patriot and terrorist is drawn by the historian.

They say that time is relative. I think the way it's treating me it's a distant one, maybe a bad uncle, and not welcome in my house this Christmas!!

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen destination.

The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

If the Lord had meant us to pay income taxes, he'd have made us smart enough to prepare the return.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

You can't have oil without oil spills.

I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.

What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts?