The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts.

It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.