Throughout my career nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at I feel as bad as I did the very first time.

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.

The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.

When you truly love, you can never really get hurt.

As if we'd fall for an obvious trap like that, " said Happy. "We're not going to fall for an obvious trap like that, are we? Oh shit, we are. I want to go home.

Discontent is want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.

I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

I was always a fan of Nic. With his movie, you know it's "A Nic Refn Movie."

Don't be intimidated by power, wealth or station, character alone makes all the difference.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.