It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.

When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.

If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.

I'm going to commune with God and I must be appropriately dressed!

I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition.

Success should not only be measured by what you get but by the stewardship of your duty.

It is important to create a family and bring up a child: these things are good and even necessary

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

Philadelphia is a depressing intellectual slum

You never know what to expect. You don't just walk on and expect an amazing reaction.

We're all always acting. You need to be able to sit in silence and not beat up on yourself. It's hard to say to yourself, 'You are human. Welcome to the human race.'

I'm leaning towards making something for kids nine and under because I have kids now. I can clean it up and make it rated G.

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.