“Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.”

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

Accident is simply unforeseen order.

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone.

I think they’ve finally realized that women go to see movies as much as men do. Ticket sales are coming from them as well, so why not appeal to them? I think they’re finding a way.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.

Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.

It’s like anything in life, visualizing the old man you’re going to become: As long as you have a clear picture of that – the life you want to lead – eventually you’ll probably get there.

I’d rather be called a boy and play with paper airplanes than be called a man and play with a girl’s heart.