Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.