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.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

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 am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.

The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys.

If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring it forth, it will destroy you.

President Obama said he plans on training 10,000 new math and science teachers. How about teaching math to that economic team of his?

I'm gonna see how this works out, but I think it's a bad idea.

There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living...

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

Mentioning Jesus in your speech: Small government. Doing what Jesus asked: Big government.

You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.