Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years.

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.

You should know this about the rich: they always want to get richer. It is never boring, getting your hands on more money.

A strong person forgives even the most unforgivable.

Life's the picture. But all good photographers know you gotta have the right lens.

There are such things as delusions, but not every unlikely vision that the mentally ill have is imaginary.

No one knows how strong they are until they have to be.

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

I had dreamed about being a college coach for a long time, but with no education, I never thought I would get a chance.

I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.

A process of genocide is being carried out before the eyes of the world.

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.