Seeing someone read a book you love is seeing a book recommend a person.

You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.

Once we go beyond this and start to open up and question and experience things in a different way, we can move forward.

The hardest thing to do is to trust people. Even if you know them from way back when, it's hard to trust people. There's a lot we have to deal with, and it's the price of fame.

I wish to thank Steinway for its wonderful pianos which I've been privileged to play in all my concerts. There is no piano like it in the world.

I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.

It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them.

Music is an extraordinary locksmith; it is so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes!

When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.