If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.