Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..

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.

Let me love and feel the charm and joy of life.

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

MacMillian groaned again, and sat up. "Clients?""Yeah. You know, people who'll give us money in exchange for work.

I'm not trying to be this cool girl. If you're trying to be something you're not, it's slowly going to bite you in the butt.

We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.

Most of my show is just improvisation. It goes with the energy of the crowd.

Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

Truth is one; And, in all lands beneath the sun, Whoso hath eyes to see may see The tokens of its unity.

There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.