I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?
The Germans may take Paris, but that will not prevent me from going on with the war. We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garronne, we will fight even in the Pyrenees. And if at last we are driven off the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea.
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
If you don't vote SocialistCommunist before you are twenty, you have no heart - if you do vote SocialistCommunist after you are twenty, you have no head.
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
We're out of control on this loony balloon, barely missing the other planets and stars.
We have to look in the mirror first. What are we doing? How can we make a change? It always starts with looking in the mirror. Every individual can. Every individual can make a difference either by proactively doing something positive or by doing nothing. That's a decision, too.
Your happiness is the most significant contribution that you could make. In your reaching for happiness, you are opening a vortex which makes you an avenue for the Well-being to flow through you. And anything that is your object of attention under those conditions, benefits by the infusion of your Well-being.
For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.