Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Artists are fiery; they do not weep.

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

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.