You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

If you aren't diligently working towards changing something that bothers you, you rescind your right to complain about it.

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

None of us always make the best financial decisions.

No task is too big or too small for God. He cares for us. He wants the best for us. More importantly He just wants us to include Him in our lives by trusting in Him.

This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong.

It's so important to take vitamins. People always get ill on tour because of the close proximity in the bus with everyone.

I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it.

It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.

Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.

How do rich people think and act?