Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the four corners of a house. For it was that same Love which planted a glorious garden redolent with precious herbs and noble flowers-roses and lilies-which breathed forth a wondrous fragrance, that garden on which the true Solomon was accustomed to feast his eyes.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.

I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.