She's only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.

It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

The best way to learn is through the powerful force of rhythm.

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling, and I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

The taste of death is upon my lips. I feel something that is not of this earth.