...music is the living God in our bosoms.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Imagination creates reality.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

the truth she gathered, enlarging her strength, enlarged likewise the composure that comes of strength.

He will regard the prayer of the destitute.

Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be given: "Come home.

You hear the beginning of a melody, you should kind of know it's going to lead down this path. It should start feeling like a friend, like familiar.

I've subsequently become conscious of MAKING MEMORIES. Which makes me sound like a scrapbooker.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

Lesson for the day, kids: hangovers are real, and they are the opposite of fun.

Good governance is treating development as a mass movement in order to see that fruits of development reach the poor and the downtrodden.

When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission.