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

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

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. . . .

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

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

Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.