In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.