God can only be comprehended as Love.
It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.
If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.
To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.
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.
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.