It's not a question of how much power you can hoard for yourself, but how much you can give away.

The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

I have a definition of success. For me it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how many shining eyes I have around me.

Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.

When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!"

In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.

I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.

The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you're doing it.

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

The more inhuman we became the more we understood each other as humans.

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

Anger is the ego’s way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.

The elixir of life is a bubbling stream of laughter.

Set your dreams where nobody hides, give your tears to the tide...

It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do.

Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.

A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.

It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship." "It's awful worse luck not to.

You want him to walk?" Caleb demands. "Are you insane?" "Did I shoot him in the leg?" I say. "No. He walks. Where do we go, Peter?