The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

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.

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

If you've got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it? Flaunt it. 'Cause what are we even doing here if we're not flaunting it?

Your busyness cannot stop God's business to save his children.

Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!

A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.

Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.

Sometimes the difference between winning and losing is will. The will to make it happen.

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.