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

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 is better to invert reality than to copy it.

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.

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

I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days...No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

The value of the television network is partly tradition, serving as a navigation device and as a brand. Research shows that people do know and understand ABC as a brand, like Disney.

Arouse in the other person an eager want.

History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.

Calmness is a huge gift. And once you master it, you will be able to respond in a useful way to every difficult situation that decides to walk into your heart.

I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.

Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.

To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.