We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up.

Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes.

Justice is what you get when you run out of money.

Evil is that which one believes of others.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

The worshiper is the father of the gods.