I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.

With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.