The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!

I never practice; I always play.

You play Bach your way, and I’ll play him his way.

The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.

I hate the word practice. Practice breeds inurement. Instead of discovering, of distinguishing traits that are deeply hidden or merely veiled, one ends seeing nothing anymore. One ceases to be aware.

The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work.

Friendship is more important than truth.

It is a rare person who can cut himself off from mediate and immediate relations with others for long spaces of time without undergoing a deterioration in personality.

Life is full of traps: Poisons can be sweet

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.

Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by.

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

The size of your promise defines the size of your life.