Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in, and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices.

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.