"A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center."

"One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry."

"Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine."

"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

"Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument."

"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."

"I love slow music."

"I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way."