But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
Solitude is bearable only with God.
Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.