"Every word is a preconceived judgment...." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.”

“Life without music is no life at all.”

“How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.”

“The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules.”

“Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'”

“I feel that I speak the musical language.”

“Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.”

“Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.”

“Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.”