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

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.

Say things to the world that are true.

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

The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

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.

You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.