Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

A lack of planning leads to failure.

I find in myself a need to get very away.

We are a country of laws.

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

Sagas wouldn't be interesting if terrible things didn't happen to the people in them.

My goal has always been to help people help themselves. Your body is your most priceless possession; you've go to take care of it!

This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is.

It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.

As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.

I'm a half-demon princess. Sure. What's so hard to grasp about that?