I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.

My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.

Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.

O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls!

There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.

The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

In case you never noticed, the path you never chose has chosen you.

Life doesn't have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

The secret of Big Macs is that they're not very good, but every one is not very good in exactly the same way.

Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.