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.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

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

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

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