The universe only gives you what you can handle, so trust that whatever is happening to you is exactly what you need. Just trust. Have certainty!
You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.
I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.
As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.
Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment. . . rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.
In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.
You can always win points; winning people’s respect is a lot more important.
As a better knowledge of Nature was obtained, the sky was shown to be an illusionBut this did not take place without resistance. At first, the public, and particularly its religious portion, denounced the rising doubts as atheism.
Get up there, where 'there' is. . . get up in front and. . . preach your guts out!