To play without passion is inexcusable!

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

Art always demands of us something new.

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

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Godhead more nearly than other mortals, and by means of that contact to spread the rays of the Godhead through the human race.

I can live only wholly with you or not at all.