In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts.

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

Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

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.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.