A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra will hate him.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

It'd be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view.

Only God, my dear, ” wrote Yeats blithely, “Could love you for yourself alone/And not your yellow hair.” This quote is meant as a bit of lighthearted verse. But it is an epic tragedy in three lines.

Having a fishing rod in your hand is merely an excuse to explore out-of-sight depths and reveal mysteries that previously only existed in dreams.

Israeli independence - what we Arabs call al-Naqba, 'The Catastrophe' - it created Palestinian identity more than anything else.

America's definitely a trendsetter, and it's where a lot of information goes out to the rest of the world.

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.

Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.

Skip the boring parts.

Fame is protection if you go to a scary place. Fame is fun. A lot of people don't say anything and you don't know they know who you are.

For me I'd say... a fact that nobody knows about me is that I hate eggs, they gross me out. It's this weird thing from childhood, I don't know what it is, but I just think eggs are disgusting.

We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.