I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE.

When the internet came in, Hulaki became a dinosaur.

I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.

The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.

Luck is a dividend of sweat.

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion

Make this the year you tackle that credit card debt once and for all.

You can always become better.