You from within our glasses, you lusty golden brew, whoever imbibes takes fire from you. The young and the old sing your praises. Here's to beer, here's to cheer, here's to beer.

I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else

By the grace of God and with His help, I shall one day be a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in composition

Writing blooms flowers for mind, which last forever.

A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.

It does not matter whatsoever, what the people around you think you can or cannot do. What really matters is what you think about your capabilities.

The heart can't beat next to a mind full of questions.

Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present

Any society that does not succeed in tapping into the energy and creativity of its youth will be left behind.

I will be fond of keeping still, and the people will of themselves become correct.

Research is a passion with me; it drives me; it is my relentless master.