I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

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

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.

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

Truth is a great flirt.