If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.

Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.

The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

Say things to the world that are true.

Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.

You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.