Cheer up, children, I am all right.

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

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

Rules are my very humble, obedient servants.

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

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.