You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

There is nothing boring in life except ourselves.

It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.

It is so much easier to rest contented with what we have already acquired than to change ever so slightly those routine but profound habits of thought and feeling which govern our life, and by which we live so blissfully. This mental inertia is, perhaps, our greatest enemy. Insidiously it leads us to assume that we can renew our lives without renewing our habits.

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.