You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Talent works, genius creates.

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

Play always as if in the presence of a master.

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you.

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

It was, she had to admit, some kind of wonderful to be kissed so deliciously by the only man who had dared play with her cat with the intention of winning.

Stephen A.Douglas was a risk-taker by temperament; I expect that Lincoln - Douglas debates represented another risk he just couldn't resist. He lived to regret it.

I'm a blue-shirt guy.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.

I would say if you are having a tough time in your life, then going to a club and getting laughs, it does make you feel better for that hour and a half show. It gets your mind off of it.

Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated.

By finding the courage to be ourselves, we gain the power to make a difference.

The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.

Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.