When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.

I would give my best quartet for a good razor.

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

When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.

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

Whenever I think of God I can only conceive of Him as a Being infinitely great and infinitely good. This last quality of the divine nature inspires me with such confidence and joy that I could have written even a miserere in tempo allegro.

I was for some time quite beside myself and could not believe that Providence could have required the presence of this indispensable man in the other world so soon.