I wish to thank Steinway for its wonderful pianos which I've been privileged to play in all my concerts. There is no piano like it in the world.

A candle, a book and a peaceful person mean three candles for the world!

The honourable are moved, by the nobility of another's sacrifice. The wicked are moved only by causing it.

Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body")

A true patriot never abandons his country at the hour of need.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.

You know what I hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts. I wouldn't wear a tie-dyed tee shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia.

I remember, as a kid, my dad always told me, "Getting older beats the alternative." Although, now my father actually is the alternative, so I don't know what he would say. He's completely dead.

We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love stronger than death.

President Murabak has been a U.S. ally for decades. He was a guarantor of some degree of peace in the Middle East and has kept a good relationship with the Western world.