Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

If there's love in a house, it's a palace for sure.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.