The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.

We do not live in an economy, we live in a Ponzi scheme.

Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.

I think it's my nature to engage in things that are more difficult.

The international community has the moral responsibility of aiding a people under occupation; however, we will not beg for their money.

And he never judges someone else's suffering.

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

I believe in a uniform for work, but why, because we're men, do we have to be ghettoised into grey suits?

The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.