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

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.

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

Life is so fleeting. I am so busy enjoying it that I have no time to get angry.

Her eyes felt swollen, and she knew she looked a mess, but sometimes...sometimes the emotions were just too big to hold.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.

San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.

I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say — yes. Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

When you reduce what you need in life to the bare minimum, then that's when you achieve true freedom.

Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.

You know, throughout the world, throughout history, when countries get rich, they stop having kids.