Frederic Chopin

"Change is the only constant in life."

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

"Family is not an important thing; it is everything."

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."

"Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"The instrument should do what the mind wishes."

"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art."

"When you play, never mind who listens to you."

"I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them."

"The public doesn't understand these things, but I write for myself and for a few friends who understand me."

"I love the beautiful season when the fields are clothed with grass and the trees with leaves."

"Do not compete; do not compete; do not compete. Create."

"A single word sometimes presents to the imagination the most extensive landscapes or the most picturesque and spirited scenes."

"The three things which must be taught to every child are truth, goodness, and beauty."

"Don't insist on going where you haven't been invited."

"Art is the effort of man to express his feelings and imagination as perceived in nature."

"I feel neither powerful nor independent, but rather weak and apprehensive."

"Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life."

"When I am not at my piano, my ideas almost leave me."

"My dearest friend, don't lose yourself in a multitude of things."

"There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."

"The higher the artist, the lower he will bow to the truth."

"I am obliged to confess I don't like to hear the piano very loudly."

"Chopin? I prefer the barrel organ."

"One must always have a goal in view, but to work without aim is better than idleness."

"I am not fit for anything, my strength fails me."

"Do not despair; despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt."

"The life of the artist is to love and to create."