Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Imagination creates reality.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

Aim at the ground, you'll never miss.

... the objects which we admire have no absolute value in themselves...

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.

When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.

I know for sure that everything will work out. No matter how crazy or bleak the situation is, it will work out. Everything passes, good and bad.