Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

[on marriage] The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances at an subject cross the inter arching searchlights.

[on strategy] I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

If we'd only stop trying to be happy, we'd have a pretty good time.