"My sole aim is to write good music."

"Constanze is not ugly, but anything but beautiful; all her beauty consists of two little black eyes and a handsome figure."

"I ask your forgiveness for my bad handwriting. It is due to the fact that I am always thinking of something else."

"They probably think because I am so small and young, nothing of greatness and class can come out of me; but they shall soon find out."

"I am a born composer."