Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

Truth is a great flirt.

You can never have too much money.

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

I'm a guy's guy. I don't comb my hair unless I have to, and I don't use lotions or fancy shampoos.

The future projects light, the past only clouds

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

You need to have honest things in the world. Even if people don't understand it, if it's coming from you, that's already important.

At the same time, it's people that are employed - many folks - but they're still not earning enough to get into the middle class.

Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news.