The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.

If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.

I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

The very essence of success is practice.

When one is an artist, what else can he be?

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

Men die. It's practically what they're for.

The more the level of insecurity is reduced, the more the level of faith will grow.

While we love, we ought to love.

All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.

The craving to touch her is like an itch I can't scratch.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

What the hell kind of family did I marry into?