Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.
The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
I build only living stones--men.
Machination is worth more than force.
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
No clock is more regular than the belly.
Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. We have lost it, or we have never had it; and, because we do not know how to judge anything, we have been led here and pushed there, beaten up, driven, politically, religiously and socially. We don't know, but it is difficult to say we don't know.
Let him be great, and love shall follow him.
I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.