For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Imagination creates reality.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

Faith is fruitfulness.

Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.

Love dissolves all fear, eliminates all doubt, and transforms all evil.

... your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me...

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.

Retiring today allows me to walk away from the game with pride, rather than have the game walk away from me.

Nintendo's way is to challenge conventional thinking. Not just for the sake of doing things differently, but to do things better.

We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.