The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!

If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar..

You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak— that I think about it all day long— that I like experimenting— studying— reflecting.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love love love that is the soul of genius.

I write as a sow piddles.

We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Dare to succeed. You were born to win.

Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life.

People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be-not what you nag them to be.

It [the Sudetenland] is the last territorial claim that I have to make in Europe.

I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'

James Remar is a student of life. I'm expressing myself by acting. I'm learning about myself and making a living.

The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.

And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.

Why does not the brain adapt to repeated exposure and become indifferent, instead of satisfied?

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Hunger feeds the need to succeed.