To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.
God can only be comprehended as Love.
In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.
A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.