What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts

To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians.

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out of shape and frustrated and angry and then unhappy, we take it out on everybody.

I want to give you the depth and the strength which is yours... the original you.

I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember.

God has saved me a million times, so I think He mustve enjoyed my song.

When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know. Downtown.