Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an authentic vitality, and because of this we are not fully alive.

You are the universe - that's why it shines!

No one's gonna sympathize when we crash, they'll say you hit what you head for, you get what you ask.

In my lifetime, the population of the world has doubled.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.

The election is not a time to discuss serious issues.

Take the road less travelled.

Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts.

I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.