It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

God can only be comprehended as Love.

It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.

Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already.

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.