Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

I hate you all because you destroy my dreams!

When I was very young I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.

God tells me how he wants the music played - and you get in his way.

And then I realized you were not rebellious but courageous. You know what that means? It means being scared but doing it anyway.

They don't know the distinction between taking care of a child and raising a child.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

My best friend recently told me that I was the most passionate person she's ever known. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult, honestly.

A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.

With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

Do you require yourself to remember? In order to live as you can and should, you first must remember who you are and what you’ve been given.

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.