Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

Years teach us more than books.

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.