Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.
But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best.
Men of genius are not quick judges of character.
When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.