For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.