Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.