The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

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. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.