I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.

An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.

The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.

Oh, Gods."His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a common mistake.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

When you look at good governance, you also need to look at how you approach the subject.

Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.

Sitting down and sharing a meal together combines two of my favorite loves: eating great food and talking about great food.

The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously.

I don't have any pressure on myself. I don't have a big record label backing me. I'm doing it all myself.

I might live miles away from you, but I do understand you issues.

The value of networking is not measured by the number of people we meet but by the number of people we introduce to others.

Commitment creates a powerful radiant energy that activates all sorts of "miracles" within and around you.