At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.

I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.

Beauty is less important than quality.

Im one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. Im just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.

There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.

Write it down in your own handwriting.

Most of the time when you laugh, it's because something is amiss - clumsy or wrong or sad - but when you laugh at a kitten, you laugh of pure joy.

In the whole history of my letters, of my liking boys, not once has a boy liked me back at the same time as I liked him. It was always me alone, longing after a boy, and that was fine, that was safe

The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.

She's got a way about her, And everywhere she goes, a million dreams of love surround her, everywhere.

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.