Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

The door of true knowledge will opento the light

Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.

Do not be angry with the rain

Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.

Two other personality traits could also make more likely [Donald] Trump's use of nuclear weapons: his impulsiveness and his lack of predictability.

GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions.

If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy!

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

When you fall, leap to your feet and try again.

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house—do not pass by like a dream.