Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

The world laughed at any attempts we made to exist in it without pain.

One thing my wife says is bad about me is that I still care too much.

If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.

The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.

I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.

As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

Kiss those cuffs good-bye." Lula from "Hard Eight" By Janet Evonavich

There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself.

The only parents in the world who don’t need sleep, and our child already sleeps through the night. Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22, p.429

It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.