Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.

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.

If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.

If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.

I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.

Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me on

When you build a bridge, you build something for all time.

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.

What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.

Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.