Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

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

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

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

God can only be comprehended as Love.

In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.