The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.