Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Are you worthy of realizing your dream? If you said yes, there is no short cut. You're going to encounter setback after setback until you realize your dream.

Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning.

My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.

Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a barbarian.

Creativity suffers under great scrutiny from ourselves or others.

I am surprising myself [at] each show, and the delivered piano often surprises me. Sometimes the piano is so old that I don't have to prepare it, and sometimes I have a concert grand!