Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged! Kill every German - wipe them out!

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

There is no progress in art.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.

Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.

Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.

Every kind deed is an act of love.

Recording music is not really the healthiest thing for the body.

Taiwan is democratic.

Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it.

The soul shares not the body's test.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

When you have a stomach ache you don't tell your stomach to go away.

We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.

It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething with a kaleidoscope of emotions.