With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

Compassion needs new approach and new outlook with the way you see the world.

The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.

The city has a face, the country a soul.

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed

In the days before the vote, I bet that the British would stay in the EU.

Nails didn't hold God to a cross. Love did.

There are a lot more TV sets in use on Monday night than on Sunday afternoon.

Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:—this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.

I want to feel that I own things.