There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.