"The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle."

"One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged."

"Experience is a good school, but the fees are high."

"Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess."

"Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son metier. (God will forgive me. It's his job.)"

"The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin."

"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."

"What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have 鈥?and you don鈥檛 have to be a 鈥楽uperman鈥?to do it."

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."

"When the student is ready. . . the lesson appears."

"From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence."

"He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it."