When I miss a week in practice, my audience knows it. When I miss a day, I know it.

If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.

I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

The very essence of success is practice.

When one is an artist, what else can he be?

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

I will reveal you who I am. I am your reflection.

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

Fools die happy. The happy die young. The young die foolish.

We are very cautious in judging [Donald Trump], especially as he wasn't in a political position before.

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.

I don't have a television. No. So, I don't watch anything.