We're asleep until we love.

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others laugh. And music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. ~The Kreutzer Sonata

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.