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.

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

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's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

My career has kind of taken on a life of its own.

When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.

Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.

It makes sense in that environment that you would hold on in the U.S. government to the people who know their way around this particular block.

A Presence is in control of the whole Universe. You just do your part and relax!

May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!

The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts-the cells.