"You are not just a big-picture girl for me, Brooke Parker. You’re the only picture."

“the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.”

“The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.”

Source : 1951 I Am a Composer.

“It must descend, as the dew, upon the tender herb, or like melting flakes of snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”

Source : Jeremiah Seed (1757). “Discourses on several important subjects. To which are added, 8 sermons preached at the lady Moyer's lecture, in the cathedral church of st. Paul, London”, p.351

“Drive will take you much farther than talent ever could.”

“Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.”

“To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.”

“The ideal society has yet to be built - one which balances nicely collective well-being and individual well-being.”

“Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.”