I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

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.

As much as you long for it, it longs for you more. Take one step toward the Big Person and it will take a hundred steps toward you.

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

The words "I am ..." are potent words be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.

The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

Heaven is a state of awareness. Hell is a state of awareness.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.

A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.

Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.