Art means to dare - and to have been right.
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.
Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.
Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.
Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.