Nothing is better than music.... It has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

The fortunate is he whose earnest purpose never swerves, Whose slightest action or inaction servesThe one great aim.Why, even Death stands still, And waits an hour sometimesFor such a will.

My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.

I'm looking over a four-leaf clover that I overlooked before.

Unhappy is the man though he rule the world who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Suicide is cheating the doctor out of job.

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.

What I'm talking about is the order of deportation, the sequence of deportation. It is almost impossible to move 11 million illegal immigrants overnight. You do it in steps.

I lost to a better player who played some courageous tennis and deserved to win.

Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.