Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

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.

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

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.

Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs.

Books are great meals for the mind!

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

The traditional rules for having children are long gone. Some days I feel like the harder choice is to not have a kid.

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

No one gets to tell you what your life means!

People intuitively know that trade is good for our country. We just have to get the right trade agreements.

I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed.

Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.