The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.

For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.

... I am done being in love with you." "Why?""I am in love with someone else. Someone who needs it more than you." "Who?" "Me.

There are no negatives in life, only challenges to overcome that will make you stronger.

Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

I hate myself because I am not beautiful. I hate myself because I am fat.

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

I had a gypsy upbringing, so I moved around all over the place and can't remember a street I grew up on.