It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.

Emotions tend to get in the way of a good argument.

Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.

In failure, you begin to lose friends. In success, you lose most of them.

I was raised on Bruce Lee.

If you follow your heart, you're never going to regret anything, even if you completely mess up constantly.

Not praising the deserving prevents envy.

In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day-or to celebrate each special day.

She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening.

No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.