I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.

The shadow demons (fears) you've been avoiding keep you stuck in a rut, a prisoner in your own life - it's time to break free and shine!

There are two types of people: those that are going somewhere and those that ain't.

Opening to love will always involve risk, but a heart safe from pain is one also locked to joy.

Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue - the sky

Isn't that ridiculous to show Peter standing at the gates of Heaven with a ring of keys? The doors are already unlocked for us, all we've got to do is walk in through the front gate!

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity.

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.