One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce

You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes.

In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to God and become fruitful in good works. Nothing higher exists than to approach God more than other people and from that to extend His glory among humanity.I will place all my confidence in your eternal goodness, O God! My soul shall rejoice in Thee, immutable Being. Be my rock, my light, forever my trust.

What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.