I love a tree more than a man.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

When my wife was asked "Do you take this man for richer or poorer . . ." she answered "For richer."

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint

Spin-offs were never really my thing.

The work, I suppose, is made in the editing, whereby I make literally hundreds of drawings, and then a much smaller percentage of those become the finished work.

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

Don't wait until you feel positive to move forward. Act your way into feeling good.

A thief never makes a noise by accident.

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.