Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.

Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts.

The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner

My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands.

Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.

Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own.

Russia hasn't paid any attention to ISIS. They're interested in keeping Assad in power.

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.