The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.
Children be comforted, I am well.
Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.
When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.
Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give me strength for my work. . . . When I was working on The Creation I felt so impregnated with Divine certainty, that before sitting down to the piano, I would quietly and confidently pray to God to grant me the talent that was needed to praise Him worthily.
Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.
It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.
I just let my hair go - if there's no hairdresser around I really can't be bothered!
The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.
Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.
I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep.