The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings...He has empowered himself with the engines of the press, which he uses to batter at the foundations of society. He is at the bottom of...every enterprise that will demolish first of all thrones, afterwards the altar, afterwards civil law.

When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.

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

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

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

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

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