Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.

I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

The very essence of success is practice.

When one is an artist, what else can he be?

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

If you want change and don’t make choices that reflect the change, you are making a choice to keep things the same.

Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.

The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella--and was necessary to it.

Fear is sweat, but terror is addictive.

I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.

You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.

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All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel.

He that can work is born to be king of something.

The medicine increases the disease.