Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, ‚convulsions of nature,‘ etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God’s love.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 – for albums, anyway.

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don’t know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don’t know. I really don’t know.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Good luck has its storms.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It’s important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

I create stars.