Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its stud

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Music and love are the wings of the soul.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love

It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.

To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

Bach is Bach just as God is God.

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any

Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious

To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.