The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.

In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness.

My heart is your home, wherever in the world you are – you will always have a place to stay.

Ignorance leads to destruction.

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter.

Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don’t have much of a vision for the future or you’re not ready to articulate it.

A peaceful worldIs an immediate, utter and absoluteNecessity.