The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

When you are standing at a crossroads in your life, realizethat the greatest block that you can put in front of your Self is the ideathat there is a ‘right’ choice.

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

Kingdom Holding will continue to achieve strong results and to distribute dividends

Some think that they know everybody, but they really don't know themselves.

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

The fact is that there is nothing more beautiful, more worthy or more conscious than you.

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

Doing what we were meant to do creates fun, excitement and contentment in our lives, and invariably, in the lives of the people around us. When you're excited about something it's contagious.

In the most innovative companies there is a significantly higher volume of thank yous than in companies of low innovation.