For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.

One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.

Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all.

The most important thing to do is really listen.

Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful.

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

Books will never die out as long as there are people around.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

'Code sharing' is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need.

I have to stay here and bury her," he whispered. "Here, between RiverClan and ThunderClan. After this, not even her own Clan will want to mourn her.

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

Anyone who tells you that American seniors are not either going to have their services cut or we're going to have to pay more is...lying about it.

Like a flying bird you came into my life. Your love was the strength that let me take the plunge. I didn't think that I would ever be this way but you have changed all things for me.

We feel that we are fighting for our lives and our livelihoods.

Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.

I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.