Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

God can only be comprehended as Love.

For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary subjugation of the flesh and the resulting absence of desires. You will appreciate how full I am of this idea when I tell you that I expect it to work the regeneration of mankind. I advise you to change over to a natural way of life, with proper nourishment (wholemeal bread), and you will soon feel the benefit.

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or not in a later incarnation we remember the former life. What counts is not the individual and his comfort, but the great aspiration to the perfect and the pure which goes on in each incarnation.