I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Life without music is unthinkable.

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Good thinking makes you more attractive to yourself and others.

For God’s kingdom to be established there is a prototype

The Law of Unconditional Loving is a tough taskmaster. Once we taste the fruits of unconditional loving, we cannot go backward, we cannot become "unaware" ever again.

Pray for victory, plan for disaster.

The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.

The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukaemia.

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.