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

As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.

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

For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

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

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. . . .