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

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

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

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

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

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.