You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.

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.

Solution to every long term problem is education.Solution to every short term problem is a smile.

Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.

In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

People change, but only if you give them room to do it.

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

When people say I can't or I musn't, I always say I can and I will.

Germany and Israel should dream together for a Middle East in which all the countries are willing to exchange the dispute of the parents with peace for their children.

Retail is selling things that don't come back to customers who do.