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

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.

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.

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?

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.

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

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