The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: "Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph.
Hermann HesseWithin us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
Hermann HesseWhen we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.
Hermann HesseThat's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!
Hermann Hesse