Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the minds, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, just, and beautiful.

The best strategy is simple but not easy.

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

The night is my canvas, and the music is my paint.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.