Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

Your spiritual path is decided by your vision and accomplished by your consistency.

The word impossible says I'm possible

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am now. Because of a mechanical failure, the prediction was inexact.

Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.

The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet.

Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

It's always nice to have people love the things that you do.

Never underestimate those who you scar.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.