He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.
From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise.
history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it before it kills you, but he was wrong. you killed it by accident. thinking you were doing something else. shattering, when all you wanted to do was keep it safe.