Your love is the best tincture

Man is, that he may have Joy.

Silence is a source of great strength.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

The wisest have the most authority.

Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither he nor the players liked the finale, which I also think rather horrible.

Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game to be competing with really young groups of kids on the radio. Or to, you know, make 'beat' music.

Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?