Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.

If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.

I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

The very essence of success is practice.

When one is an artist, what else can he be?

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection.

My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'

If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the factories and slums, on the farms and in the mines, then my world changes.

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.

I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre

I believe that if doors don't open, make new doors. So I also have started producing quite a bit of things as well.

I've had so many challenges throughout my career, however successful people perceive me to be.

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

I am very picky about my people and my beer.