At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.