When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

The high note is not the only thing.

Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.

I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.

Successful teaching is not head-to-head

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.

When God says no, we are sometimes tempted to wonder if He loves us. In reality, it’s because He loves us, He sometimes says no.

Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability.

... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.

What makes you happy is seeing someone else smile because you put it there. That's what's awesome about living in this world.