I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

It is very difficult to tell the truth.

No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit

Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare for the night and for the winter time, but do not prepare for death. We must prepare for death. But there is only one way to prepare for death - and that is to live well.

Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others laugh. And music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. ~The Kreutzer Sonata

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.