Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.