When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested.

I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.

What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.