When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.

Not by prayers alone will a captive be freed, but by another man’s prayers matched by his deeds.

The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.

I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.

Obstructions on the way to enlightenment, are you kidding? Hey, they crucify people here. You think this is an easy place?

Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.

People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.

There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again

There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.