A perfectionist is someone who finishes the backside of a drawer, which I consider completely unnecessary.
Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
Only silence is great; all else is weakness.
I have nothing definite to apologize for; I'm just sorry about everything in general.
Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.
I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master