I couldn't only do one thing--I don't want the personal hell of oneness.

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.

One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.

Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all.

The most important thing to do is really listen.

Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful.

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

The Higher Self is whispering to you softly in the silence between your thoughts.

Gosh, I love saying Booyakasha! I keep finding new ways to say it. I love saying Booyakasha.

I’ve always said that a wise businessperson will support the ANC… because supporting the ANC means you’re investing very well in your business

Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

I never went to sleep thinking and dreaming that I wanted to be an actor. It just kind of fell on my lap and I said, "Okay, maybe I can do this? Lets see.".

Almost too hot for skinny jeans, the impossible becomes the possible.

Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.

For some miracles can only occur in the dark.