The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

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.

Trust is the bedrock of intimacy

Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least

It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.

So absolute, it is no other than happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.

When adversity hits, go out and learn something.

Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace.

With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn.

Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go.

Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.