I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing.

The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.

When a piece gets difficult, make faces.

Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.

Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.

Practice in tranquility.

It is not music's function to express rational necessities.

Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.

The beauty of God, is God himself.

Yesterday I talked about cultivating precision, gentleness, and openess, and described how the meditation technique helps us to remember the qualities that we already possess.

Poetry is the yearning of the soul to break free!

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.

It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.

A mom has to be ready for anything.

Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form. p 259

'How was your day?' is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.

He moves his thumb in a slow circle over the back of my hand. It is meant to comfort me, but it frustrates me instead. I need to talk to him. I need to look at him.