A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.

God can only be comprehended as Love.

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.