Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.