Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

Imagination creates reality.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.