Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home

When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.

In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.

A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

When you don't respond to bad behavior, you get more of it.

I'm a living, breathing example of someone who does the same exact thing, but drugs and alcohol just aren't a part of who I am.

Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.

One can always find inflationary models to explain whatever phenomenon is represented by the flavour of the month.

Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.

I can connect anything to anything.

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.