Competitions are for horses, not artists.

It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

Adequate photographers use their sight, good photographers use their senses, and great photographers use their souls.

Is Russia worried that defeating Daesh will open the door for defeating Bashar Assad? That would be a different story. But I don't think World War III is going to happen in Syria.

What are you reading for?

A good one iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife.

I seem to have excalibured this knife.

I never thought about getting any tattoos removed.

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

If the desires are cut off one by one, then there is peace. When the desires go one by one then there is die-mind. Then there is peace of mind.

Someone has to spread the good news that we survived.