Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.

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.

Do it double, because some can't do it at all.

A person's integrity develops early in life. Once formed, it is difficult to alter, change, or improve.

Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.

If you keep all those thoughts inside, your brain will explode.

...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

My dream was to be either a volleyball player or a veterinarian.

If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.

This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself.

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.