“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts.

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”