It is better to invert reality than to copy it.

I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.

To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.

I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he what suits him.

Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.

The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna.

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.

Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.

Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid

it's so easy to be a poetand so hard to be a man.

A thousand time knocked down by life

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

What is being said in media in other parts of the world is very different from what we've been told in this country throughout these years between September 11 and today.

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

Sometimes the Lord rides out the storm with us and other times He calms the restless sea around us. Most of all, He calms the storm inside us in our deepest inner soul.

Only for today, I will devote ten minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul

If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.