Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous.

How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life!

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.

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

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.