We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.

In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.

When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.

True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.