Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.

Start each day with thoughts of gratitude and you will attract the power of love.

Hope is strong faith.

To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

Even when I haven't had money, I found money to travel. It's a luxury that's a kind of necessity, I think.

To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.

Im a huge fan of The Odd Couple, yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

What is a valid reason for someone to love someone else? Since apparently I’m doing it wrong.