Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."]

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Music and love are the wings of the soul.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love

It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.

To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

Bach is Bach just as God is God.

Our only hope is faith in God.

The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.

I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.

Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.

It's so hard to fight against someone who is stuck in what they believe whether you agree with it or not.

Ashrams often become places where there is a hierarchy and a pecking order and not much enlightenment. That is what some people are drawn to. But that has nothing to do with enlightenment.

When you realize how perfect [or at least better than it could be] everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

If you're just like someone else, we don't need you.

You and I aren't remembered for what we acquire but for what we contribute.

To beat terrorism, there's only one candidate who can do it and it's Hillary Clinton.