Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading.

Give people strength and encouragement, build them up with good words!

Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

If ambition doesn't hurt you you haven't got it.

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

What Leo does is so incredible that I have to be careful not to stand still watching him make his moves.

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.