Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.

I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

Now she had to pretend not to love the man she was pretending to love while pretending she wasn't sleeping with him.

Faith is courage.

Jesus demonstrated the importance of prayer by His own example. His whole ministry was saturated with prayer.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.

In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.

Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing.

Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.

"Choosing to be with you, isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline"... "It's easy. Incredibly easy."