I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

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

Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

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

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.