You will never have enough time to do everything you need to do, so what you need is a crystal clear understanding of the important things you have to do.
The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.
For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.
Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.
Was I asleep? Had I slept?
Inspiration hits me at the most annoying times. Like when I am on my bicycle going back home from the studio at 3 a. m. . I've many crackly recordings into my mobile phone practically inaudible from the wind rushing into the handset!
What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.
There is no creation without faith and hope. There is no faith and hope that does not express itself in creation.