It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.