When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!"

The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.

The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

It’s one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he’s leading to realize whatever he’s dreaming. Imagine if Martin Luther King had said, ‘I have a dream. Of course, I’m not sure they’ll be up to it.

My job [is] to awaken possibility in other people. If their eyes are shining, you know you're doing it. If they're not shining you get to ask this question: "Who am I being that my children's eyes are not shining?"