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

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

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

You do not lose your value or preciousness when you grow to be a adult. You are still that miraculous creation. You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

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

For twelve years I studied and worked at them every day, and I was nearly 25 before I had the courage to play one of them in public. Before I did, no violinist or cellist had ever played a Suite in its entirety.

Yes, it is true. I am a miracle. I am a miracle like a tree is a miracle, like a flower is a miracle. Now, if I am a miracle, can I do a bad thing? I can't, because I am a miracle, I am a miracle. . . .