My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.

I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.

Passion is a blazing flame.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Rory did not want her. After devoting so much effort to avoid being wed to a man she did not want, she found herself bound to a man who did not want her.

Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

When I’m on the court, I try to play with all my emotion and heart.

Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.

The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.

I lead a very boring, normal life.