There is no beauty without order.

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.