Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: “I hardly move, yet far I seem to have come”, and the all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: “You see, my son, time turns here into space

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Imagination creates reality.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

A doctor, a teacher and a politician have no caste.

He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. ("A Woman's Vengeance")

Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all.

You can't make people respond.

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused

Nothing remained but loneliness and grief.

To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.