Tough is to innovate

I want to be good...I try to be good, I do try, and to like everybody. But there are some people - some people I can't like, however much I try. I hate them - there!

Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.

Sometimes inspiration just requires looking at things from a different point of view.

I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.

I think you just have to take the bad with the good and you're going to get hurt more, but it's worth it.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

If I've learned anything, it's really just to stop trying to find answers and certainties.

In every governmental speech I give before state parliament, I say: Bavaria will remain Bavaria.