To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

A doctor once asked me: 'Charlie, what do you think your problem is?' “Doc, ' I said, '…you’re the problem!

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

After a disappointing summer, Humpty Dumpty has a great fall.

We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed. . . But we're going back next week.

Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.

Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

I actually just started home schooling. And it is great.

When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.