Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time... before writing them down... once I have grasped a theme. I shall not forget it even years later. I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head... [the work] rises, it grows, I hear and see the image n front of me from every angle... and only the labor of writing it down remains... I turn my ideas into tones that resound, roar, and rage until at last they stand before me in the form of notes.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'

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

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

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.

Wherever you are, I am there also.