The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.

An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

Yes, this man had the persistence of an insect.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.

When I'm watching sports I can't be bothered.

I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.

I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

I'm glad to see the casual game play coming back now on the Internet, games that aren't violent, that aren't complex that you can sit down and you can have some fun.

Washington is dangerously positioned between two Canadas, Canada Canada and California's Canada, Oregon.

Let yourself be the person you've secretly always wanted to be

Put yourself in the path of lightning.