For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach... It is a sort of benediction on the house.

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.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of personal responsibility.

Songs are dangerous, songs are subversive and can change your life.

One of the only things more powerful than the human heart is the that it takes to heal one that has been broken

Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect?I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything I have, I can't be disappointed with the outcome.

It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.

It is a cup final and the one who wins it goes through

Genius is its own end.