If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.
To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.
Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
That which draws us by its mystical force; what every created thing, even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the center of its being... is the force of love. Christians call this "eternal blessedness." It is a necessity of man for growth and joy.