Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.

If you make a mistake, celebrate.

Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you're doing it.

Live the rest of your life in possibility

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

Imagine Martin Luther King saying, 'I have a dream ... But I don't know if the others will buy it.'