Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to look round, And at folly or vice let it fly

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.