Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

Every nation has to either be with us or against us. Those who harbor terrorists or who finance them, uh, are going to pay a price.

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

Hope is fragile and needs to be tended and renewed.

No matter where you are on your journey, that's exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead.

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming

A lot of learning canbe a little thing.