When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.

If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.

I'm going to commune with God and I must be appropriately dressed!

I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition.

I do believe that people can only be in love with one landscape in their lifetime. One can appreciate and enjoy many geographies, but there is only one that one feels in one’s bones.

Stay open. You may find your tribe where you least expect it.

A leader may symbolize and express what is best in his people like Pericles or what is worst like Hitler but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it.

Whatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular, you end up thinking that's you and that isn't necessarily you.

I am indeed honored to call him my friend.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

Ideas are worthless if you can’t make them happen.

It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.