Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.

The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.