In America, people are so busy. Even the children are busy. I get the impression very few of us are touching the miracle that you are alive.
Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice. . . . Truth breaks free, science is popularized, and religion totters; soon it will fall, in the course of centuries--that is, tomorrow. . . . In good time we shall only have to deal with reason.
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.
Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.
I lived in Italy for three years and wanted no part of the country's disreputable way of life.
Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.
Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.
I never knew that when you're number one on the call sheet you have not only the responsibility of carrying the film but also the responsibility of keeping up the morale of the crew and cast.
I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.