Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.

One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

The moment is supreme.

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

Our castle is not imposing but is well built and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiffs house.

The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.

I want you for always days years eternities.

I want you for always...days, years, eternities.

I want you for always, days, years, eternities.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.

Money is a poor man's credit card.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.