Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

Cheer up, children, I am all right.

Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.

Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give me strength for my work....When I was working on The Creation I felt so impregnated with Divine certainty, that before sitting down to the piano, I would quietly and confidently pray to God to grant me the talent that was needed to praise Him worthily.

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.