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.

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

Friendship is more important than truth.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.

Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.

It was a real dream come true just to get the job [in Moana], and yeah, and we sort of got right to work.

What we can do, we will try to do.

I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right.

We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.

The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization.

Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.

You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.