You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

A conductor should guide rather than command.

Music does not know the difference between people; it only speaks to their hearts. It is the only form of communication that can bring this terrible world together.

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare 'entertainment.' It's not 'entertainment.' It's culture.

It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things.

You and I, God’s ambassadors, are called to sound the warning, to call sinners to repentance, to point the way to peace with God and the hope that is in Christ.

Melville to Hawthorne: "In your stories, you seem to understand that the dramatic moments come not when a character must choose between right and wrong buy when he must choose between two wrongs.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

There's always more than one path, and to think otherwise is what resigns you to fate.

Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.

I've always believed in the saying that "there is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit."

When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.

If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.

Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song.