There are so many people who are interested in classical music. Fortunately, I think many of them are quite young, so it's wonderful to present new programs to them.

It's important to play the pieces that you feel you can play well. It was always my dream to play Bach - my first love and fascination - Chopin, and Szymanowski.

A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me.

I dreamt of playing in the big halls all over the world and it has always been my dream to play for people in many different countries.

I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.

There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three.

Knowing what I know about the people who have come before me, and the people who came before them, and what they had to do, it changes my capacity to stay engaged, to stay productive.

Our objective is to position Nissan in the top rank of the car industry. Until we get there, there will be no rest.

I can remember crying on the set of Beverly Hills 90210 after being released from the show a few years ago

Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire.

Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you.

The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?