And they prayed for him.
Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.
Don't make prayer a consistent battle, but rather constantly pray against life's battles.
I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.
There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.
Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit.