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.

I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.

Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.