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

That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors.

My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

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.

Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.