The moment is supreme.

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.

One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

The moment is supreme.

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

Our castle is not imposing but is well built and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiffs house.

The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.

I want you for always days years eternities.

I want you for always...days, years, eternities.

I want you for always, days, years, eternities.

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.

Theres this place in me where your fingerprints still rest your kisses still linger and your whispers softly echo. Its the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me

In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.

The future of Norway isn't about competing on being the cheapest but the most innovative. We have an expensive welfare state, and the only answer to continue that way is to become more competitive, especially on knowledge.

I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.

There are some fights none of us can win.

So many of the schools are just politically correct mirrors of each other. If you go to this school versus that school, you're just going to get a different version of the same political correctness and liberal indoctrination.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -"Fix it"- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.

The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.

You need to think, when you get involved in wars, how you're going to get out of them.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.

I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.

If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

I let my times speak for myself.