God can only be comprehended as Love.

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.

Don't seek a failure-less life. Wear failure as a badge of honour. Seek a fearless life !

The quality of a society and of its culture will depend on the status of its unemployed.

Instead of cursing the darkness, try to fix the lamp.

Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon

his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

God is within your mind. God is within all things. As a matter of fact, there is nothing that is not God.

The life of an unenlightened person is filled with suffering.

I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.