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

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.

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 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.

Life is about balance. It's not about forgetting the bad times or escaping them. It's about creating enough good times to outweigh the bad.

What was he? Storyteller and secretary and doer of odd jobs, neither Tizerkane nor delegate, just someone along for the dream.

My brain refused to move past the pain, as if it had been filled to the max and needed to be emptied.

Words of sincere felt in heart and trigger smile.

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

I love hanging out at home with my kid. It's hard to get me to leave the house.

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.

You come to us well tempered, my child, and it is not in my nature to be sorry for it. It is a well tempered blade that is the strongest.