This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

I love a tree more than a man.

Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.

The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.

Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.

I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.