When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

I am happy in my prison of passion

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.