Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.
You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.