My Health May Be Better

There Is Nothing Greater Than The Joy Of Composing Something Oneself And Then Listening To It.

I Cannot Be So Bad When Everybody Is So Fond Of Me.

How Often Have I Actually Discovered In Myself That Enthusiasm Raises The Artist Above Himself, How In An Ordinary Mood One Would Not Have Been Able To Accomplish Many Of The Things For Which Enthusiasm Lends One Everything, Energy, Fire.

I Cannot Give A Single Concert At Which I Do Not Play One Piece After The Other In An Agony Of Terror Because My Memory Threatens To Fail Me. This Fear Torments Me For Days Beforehand.

If I Have Known Much Trouble In My Youth, I Have Also Known Much Joy.