Oh how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!

When it came down to technical skill and ability of the two teams, Croatia were far superior.

I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.

It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.

When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.