True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

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.

It was time to bring out the world destructive weapons. It was now time to hit him where it would do the biggest damage, his pride.

He was the smell of winter rain and the sound of his predator’s heartbeat

Don't buy much but make sure that what you buy is good.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

Whether you like it or not, you will leave a leadership legacy.

If someone asks, Is anyone alive? Break, your, head, open, and, show, your, ten, ta, cle.

A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote.

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?