Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?

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.

Yet today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable.

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

I couldn't wait to start the day.

A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it is the only system capable of securing the constitutional state.

All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

Wisdom sits with children round her knees.