...moderate your desire of producing perfection, temper your eagerness to produce faultless performance...and soften your manners towards those who are subordinate to you...

There is no giving advice to a young man so much in love.

Sometimes, good things that go wrong are like seeds. They have to be buried for something bigger and better to sprout out of them.

I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.

I believe that the Jewish state will exist forever.

The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.

If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.

A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.

Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.