When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

Real learning begins outside the classroom.

Remember the people in the back streets of Derby.

You got to learn to take what people are willing to give.

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

Learning is better worth than houses or land.

When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.

Thicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized.

The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you're lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it.

We don't owe the blacks a damn thing, anyway.