Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.
Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.
Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet. ' If our parents had lived on the banks of the Ganges, we would have been worshipers of Siva, longing for the heaven of Nirvana. As a rule, children love their parents, believe what they teach, and take great pride in saying that the religion of mother is good enough for them.
I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.