This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.

One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.

Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all.

The most important thing to do is really listen.

Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful.

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

I was at Michael Jackson's house, and this kid runs out, 'Wait, save me!'

Don't count the miles, count the I love you's!

There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.

Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

When I do things with people it's not with the hopes of them coming back because that would be a selfish reason for me to do anything.

Hardly anything wrong can go bad.

It looks tough for Palace when you see some of the results they've got coming up.

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas