What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

What matters in art is not thinking but making.

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.