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.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.