The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.

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.

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.

Baseball is the reason I have my apartment, baseball is the reason I'm on the cover of video game. Baseball is what I do.

When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life!

Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.

When someone covets something they desire and lust over it.Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem.

Every time I'm close to you, there's too much I can't say, and you just walk away. And I forgot to tell you I love you.

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.