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

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.

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

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.

I believe my success is what I'm going to achieve today and tomorrow not what I did yesterday.

The stretch of Bruce Highway between Gin Gin and Miriam Vale was long and lonesome.

I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.

I hooked up everybody in Sidney, including one guy who was blind.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

You still owe me a yellow Porsche.

A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition.