Dad’s especially need to remember that what they say to their daughters is written in Sharpie. It can’t be erased.

What I love about the game is that the game doesn't know who is supposed to win.

Anything worthy of your passion, should be worthy of your preparation.

The greatest of the great make others better.

Life is a team sport; it's not about you.

Some plant lips on Mother Earth in a display of gratitude.Meanwhile, she is kissing the soles of your feet, recognizing the one to be worshiped is you.

My wife is a saint. She's Gandhi. She walks around in diapers and won't eat.

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost.

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

My freshman year of high school was just awkwardness all around.

Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.