What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

It's hard luck always having to be a judge.

What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.