His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Victory begins when we are willing to run by faith, trusting that he will lead the way.

A humble man speaks not of his own humility

A life has to move or it stagnates.

Unlike exotic fruit or fancy cars, democracy is best if it is grown locally. It may take root in the common desire of the people who choose to adopt it, but it cannot be imposed from the outside.

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.

I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!