I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language... Apache.

Be so good they can't ignore you.

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.

Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.

Relationships end, but they don't end your life.

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

If you don't speak then you are not heard, and if you are not heard then you don't really exist

In reality, I'm happy without you and I'm less free with your presence.

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

I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.

Who has that absolute trust, to fling yourself into mortality, to let it do with you as it will, with all the permutations and possibilities of as it will, be it horror or ecstasy or boredom?

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.

Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.

We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.

I need to observe the people, and I think I need to observe myself.