Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.

Evil report carries further than any applause.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments, but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

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