Until you do what you believe in, how do you know whether you believe in it or not?

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.