For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything.

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.

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

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.

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

Time is 'to make'. it is not 'to have'.

Nature is full for us of seeming inconsistencies and glad surprises.

I'm a coward, I didn't want to die.

Love all creatures! Love everything that has life!

In the sea of love, I melt like salt Faith, Doubt - they both dissolve. A star is opening in my heart . The worlds turn in it.

I have learned that all you give is all you get, so give it all you got.

I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home.