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.

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.

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.

Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

To retire is the beginning of death.