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

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being.

Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

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.

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