Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.

No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.

The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.

The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.

Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

If you stuck in the past, you won’t be able to step in the future!

Remember that your attitude towards life determines life’s attitude toward you. At any moment, you can choose to change everything for the better.

And now that I've been exposed to this feeling, perfect mouth against perfect mouth, the natural order of things, I wonder why people don't kiss all day, every day. How does anything ever get done?

Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety - these big themes are inside us, flickering, all day.

The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.

Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.

At the end of a movie, all my outfits are missing. They even call: 'Tara, those were $700 shoes.' What are they going to do, search my house?

My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.