Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather....In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.