"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business"

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

"Music is my religion"

"All lasting business is built on friendship"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre"

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite"

"Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time"

"I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity"

"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy"

"It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him"