You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can guide him a little by planting a stick in here and a stick in there.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.

To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.

Religion is boring and alien to me and relates no more than a chimera to what is to me the reality of the spirit.

I prefer to look up in hope than down in expectation.

It is you!" the man exclaimed. "We thought you weren't coming for another week!" "Ashe," Sarene mumbled, "who is this lunatic and what does he want with me?

Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.

A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.

Every other consideration and plan and emphasis is secondary to that of wielding the forces of prayer.

I don't think I ever knew just how great it can feel to push your body past its limits, and running is a great way to do it. In fact, the harder I train, the more awesome the after-effects!

It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.

I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.