Healthy habits are learned in the same way as unhealthy ones - through practice.
The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.
God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.
you and I are close, we intertwine; you may stand on the other side of the hill once in awhile, but you may also be me while remaining what you are and what I am not.
The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no.
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.