Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"The imagination distinguishes humans from mere machines."

"Nature's patterns reveal the mathematics of divine creation."

"Wisdom often arrives disguised as failure or disappointment."

"One cannot teach creativity, only awaken it within the student."

"Time is the canvas upon which we paint our lives."

"Truth requires courage to speak and wisdom to receive."

"Freedom in art means responsibility for one's choices."

"Peace is an internal state, not merely an external condition."

"The greatest science is the science of understanding human nature."

"Faith is the courage to believe in what we cannot yet see."

"Leaders who listen learn more than leaders who speak."

"Work becomes joy when infused with purpose and passion."

"Every dream planted today becomes tomorrow's reality or wisdom."

"Humor is the ability to find light within the darkness."

"Beauty multiplies when shared with those who understand it."

"Death reminds us to live with intention and authenticity."

"The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between them."

"A man who does not fear God has no other fear."

"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."

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go into the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."

"The instrument sounds better when I am filled with God."

"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings."

"Composing is not such a terrible lot, you know. When you are not composing you are thinking about composing."

"It is a great consolation for me to remember the obliging nature of my father."

"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."

"I have absolutely no pleasure in music unless I play it myself."

"Perfection is not just about control. It is also about letting go."

"People make a great fuss about my first compositions, but before that I wrote all the beginnings of all the symphonies."

"A man of 24 cannot write like a man of 30; that is a matter of nature."