Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years.

To retire is the beginning of death.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

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.

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! ... and when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel?