Music was not invented by the composer, but found.

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

Metias is gone again. He is always gone.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

Dogs aren't like family members, they are family members.

By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.

If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world!

My mum certainly isn't a prude, nor is my brother, so I think I'm lucky to have a family like that.

Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society

My life and happiness speaks for itself.

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.