There is nothing boring in life except ourselves.

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

There is far more spiritual potential within than most people realize. The potential is so great that to define it in words would be impossible.

This dissociation from the body extends to emotional disengagement. Without access to his feelings a man can’t help but lose track of who he is, what his priorities are and what is normal for him.

Je sais la douleur est la noblesse unique O u' ne mordront jamais la terre et les enfers. I know that pain is the one nobility upon which Hell itself cannot encroach.

Does it hurt very much to die? Well, sweetheart, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

The great thing about him, is that he will not quit.

It is only because you take your mind to be yourself, and make it dwell on what you are not, that you lose your sense of well-being.

Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

If Justin Beiber was 7 feet tall, he'd look like [Meyers Leonard] that.

Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.