Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.

My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

I shall seize fate by the throat.

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