Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Talent works, genius creates.

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

Play always as if in the presence of a master.

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you.

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

It's okay to wander.

Actions do not need to be changed

If you do not want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead...be read, or try coming back and pull the feet of those who are still alive instead!

You want happy endings, read cookbooks.

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied... For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

This nation is daring and decent and ready for change.

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.

Stop and go: always on some journey. My bounty is a photograph or two.