"#3537. Superfluity does not vitiate."

"She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else."

"One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read."

"Filling a bookcase is like gathering a social circle."

"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong."

"Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do."

"I am Cuban, Argentine, Bolivian, Peruvian, Ecuadorian, etc... You understand."

"A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom."

"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."

"It's noble to want to confess, but if the results are just damage and pain, that's not noble. It's selfish."

"Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction."

"If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your back."