Music is my life and my life is music.

If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.

I love it when an aria fits a singer as perfectly as a suit of well-tailored clothes.

I am a fool. That is well known.

Let us put our trust in God and console ourselves with the thought that all is well, if it is in accordance with the will of the Almighty, as He knows best what is profitable and beneficial to our temporal happiness and our eternal salvation.

I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from it either by words or by chastisements.

God first, then papa.