There is a number missing. I can see it.

Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.

I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.

Beauty is less important than quality.

Im one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. Im just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.

There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.

Read. Learn. Write. Travel.

Income, that is the thing. I wish an income that will keep flowing into my purse whether I sit upon the wall or travel to far lands.

When you understand, you cannot help but love. You cannot get angry.

The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

I see what those people [veterans] are going through. To see a doctor, sometimes it takes six and seven days and then you finally get there and the doctor is gone on vacation.

Even if you finish the year at No. 1 in the world, and Tiger Woods has done this, you can still probably get better.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.