The world is so rife with narcissists that none of them take enough notice of me.

Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.

I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.

To see in the dark, close your eyes.

Knowing your ignorance is far better than knowing what you know! Understanding the path and will of God is far better than mastering your own path.

I spent a long time trying to make it in the commercial world hoping that commercials would then lead to movies. That was a less-travelled path at the time, although it's very well-travelled now.

The restful alertness response reverses the aging process.

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.

All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.

Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.