Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

I met on the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat wras worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled through his shoes, and the stars through his soul.

Press on! a better fate awaits thee.