Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

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

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

Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.

It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.