Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity.

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt.

Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional.

There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the ground.

There can be no civil peace without the rule of law.

Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.

I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.

It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!

As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.

As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are learning about our world and its possibilities.

A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.

A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.