Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?

I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.

I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.

Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.

I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.