It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

A questioning man is already half wise.

They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came.

A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.

It's really fun to watch yourself disappear in the movie every day.

I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had.

If a better system's thine, Impart it frankly, or make use of mine.

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.

The people of America are tired of voting based on what candidates have told them they're gonna do, and nothing ever changes.

We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.