The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.

The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable.

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.

Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.

I can only hope that neither of them was scarred by their upbringing.

The service of self terminates at our own death.

Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.

Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body

If you are scared you die every day. If you are not scared, you die only once.

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".

Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune. A blessing that is an act of Divine compassion.

The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America.

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.