There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

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.

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

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.

She doesn't give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears.

It's about doing things that you haven't done before, where you're still kind of a beginner, and not resting on your laurels.

Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance.

The object is to try to get the (movie) system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I'm afraid.

Sacrifice is never easy or it is no true sacrifice. - Stannis

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny

People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what?... They're absolutely right.

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.