Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors.

Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced private spending. Furthermore, private spending is generally more efficient than the government spending that would replace it because people act more carefully when they spend their own money than when they spend other people's money.