The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

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.

In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest.

The condemned man’s voice is laced with dark promise as he continues. “Remember Father, evil is simply ‘live’ spelt backwards." Hellbound

We need to act and embrace uncertainty as a pool of opportunity.

Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Worry may not change the outcome, but it definately affects the outlook.

I will always be referred to as a theorist, but I was only a fellow traveller with a degree.

...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.