Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.

Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

(Kenneth) Star...(has) done what I could not do in a quarter century: make pornography more widely available.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.