Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.

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.

When pain is intense, you are at a climax. You can then see the light of transcendence.

Some people simply seem to know how to live. They know when to seize the day, when to go with the flow, and when to row for dear life.

We're going to take care of our military - the people in our military, the finest people we have.

I follow my heart, for I can trust it.

Any method to heighten the presence of that which is the source of creation within you, is yoga.

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.

Life is a race. If you delay starting, how can you have any hope of winning?

Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it.