People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.
Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux
Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.
When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.
I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.
Last year I gave several lectures on "Intelligence and Musicality among Animals". . . Today I am going to speak to you about "Intelligence and Musicality among Critics". . . The subject is much the same, with some modifications, of course.
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.
I don't see any sign of God in this world, in the place where we live and things we know. It can all be explained to my mind perfectly satisfactorily without God. But in the great darkness beyond this little spark of light where I live, of course there may be all kinds of things. There may be a god. So I'm really an agnostic.
I wouldn't say it came easy, but I understood how to win and I determined how I could do it.
One thing we've learned this summer is that a house is not an end in itself, any more than "home" is just one geographic location where things feel safe and familiar. Home can be anyplace in which we create our own sense of rest and peace as we tend to the spaces in which we eat and sleep and play. It is a place that we create and re-create in every moment, at every stage of our lives, a place where the plain and common becomes cherished and the ordinary becomes sacred.
Hotels are temporary people storage, no matter how big the boxes are. Remember that.