Life is not as easy as it could be for a person with a disability.

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.

One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.

Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all.

The most important thing to do is really listen.

Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful.

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

Jealousy stings, envy poisons, anger harms, and hate murders.

Shifters didn't share when it came to their mate.

...it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...

In the middle of nowhere, an old wooden bridge is a golden bridge!

Evidently, quality of wits is more important than quantity.

You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.

Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.

Don't ever lose that innocent laughter, don't let time take that away

You can pretend anything and master it.

After "Jack Reacher" the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.