To retire is the beginning of death.

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

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

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.

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!

The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated.

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