When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.

My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.

Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.

O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls!

There is no such thing as happy music.

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

Fate is a crazy thing.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right? I want it that way.

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

I really like working. I can't think of a job I didn't like.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Yo, you don't think you're going under? I got a bullet with your name, your address, and your phone number.

Children are so egocentric - they want to watch their lives, and not yours.

Paul Newman is not a very good pool player.

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.