Claude Debussy

"Music is the language of the emotions."

"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe."

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."

"I love music passionately. And because I love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle and cramp it."

"One should work like a man possessed by the devil, not for the sake of truth or justice, but from a kind of passion."

"Creativity takes courage."

"The pleasure we experience in hearing a beautiful piece of music comes from the excitement of the soul."

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."

"To understand the beautiful, we must have faith in it."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."

"The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher."

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."

"One must search for an idea until it has entirely taken possession of one's consciousness."

"Liberty is the right to choose one's own chains."

"The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed and careful adjustments we fall and get crushed."

"Character is higher than intellect."

"Hope is the thing with feathers."

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing."

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

"Time is the most valuable thing we have."

"Love is the bridge between two souls."

"True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful."

"Friendship is a two-way street."

"The family is the basic unit of society."

"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."

"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway."