The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother...
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on...
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form...
The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West so was my information...
There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure and that's if we quit.
Failure is not fatal victory is not success.
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
Friendship may and often does grow into love but love never subsides into friendship.
