Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success.

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.

She wanted to be free, and if she could never be free, at least she wanted to be brave - brave enough not to sell herself, no matter what the payment, or the cost of refusing.

In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

The only real mistake here is ignoring the inner voice.

There are unquestionable violations of our Constitution.

In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.

Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them