Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.

Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.

My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein.

It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely.

Time is rarely the limiting factor -- more so, structure often is.

Islam and Sufism are one. Teaching that to understand Islam one must be a lover, how can one understand Islam when the heart is empty of love.

You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational system.

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire to but attain. Reading gave me hope. For me, it was the open door.