The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

There is no greater crime than a crime against humanity. There is no greater crime against humanity than usury. The greatest violence, and the greatest threat to humanity, is the growth of MONEY.

When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can’t go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they’re covered with soil or stones?

I knew in that moment that everything happens for a reason, but we can’t always know the reason when the journey begins. Some things we can only understand at the end of our journey.

Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.

I gotta take the baton from Chuck Norris.

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

In a lot of ways, being a writer is a lousy job - grueling, emotionally taxing, terrible hours, no health care - so if it wasn't about love, what would be the point?

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

It's very impossible to live by yesterday's standards and expect extraordinary results today. Live life with passion!