If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.

Children learn to smile from their parents.

An unlimited amount of ability can develop when parent and child are having fun together.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

Music is the language of the heart without words.

Perhaps it is music that will save the world.

Patience is the absence of expectation.

It is in our power to educate all the children of the world to become a little better as people, a little happier.

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

Only children believe they're capable of everything.

Everything has a consequence to it.

The job of dictator is now a high-risk job.

I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.

I do a real analysis of who actually owns things - it’s the British…the Dutch…then it’s the Arabs…then it’s the French…then it’s the Jews…and then, on down the line.

I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they’re passionate about, something that’s challenging and worthwhile.

Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.

Talent is nothing but long patience.

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.