Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.

People ask me all the time, 'What keeps you up at night?' And I say, 'Spicy Mexican food, weapons of mass destruction, and cyber attacks.'

I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.

Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

Multi-Choice question: My dishwasher is: efficient; hilarious.

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.

Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.

I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.