Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love love love that is the soul of genius.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!

If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar..

You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak— that I think about it all day long— that I like experimenting— studying— reflecting.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

I write as a sow piddles.

We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.

A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus. Our scars may be our greatest ministry.

The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time.

It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

I certainly admire people who do things.

The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.

Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it'll stop breaking it.

I don't smoke, drink alcohol well, or play games. But I watch dramas. It is hard to quit.