Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.