“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.”

Genius lives only one story above the madness.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Life is a constant process of dying.

I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.

The world is my idea.

Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.

Revenge is the mode of ignorancev-vit’s often said that you can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else.

God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.

You cannot become unbreakable if you have never been broken.

We set out with nothing but music as our dream, but we didn’t know where we were going, whether we were going uphill or downhill, or as we took a break after becoming tired, whether around the corner there was a paradise or a pitfall. That’s how we started.

If your love destroys me, consider my destruction glorious.

For me, it’s not about breaking big in Hollywood, but having interesting experiences.

When God is involved, anything can happen. Be open. Stay that way. God has a beautiful way of bringing good vibrations out of broken chords.

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.