If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.

We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.