The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.

My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.

Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.

O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls!

This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.

Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

Do what you know is right, but try not to get caught.

Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.

Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing - but it works miracles.

People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.