Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.
As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.
Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment. . . rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.
There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.
Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.
Make sure your approach is consistent and steady so that you can maintain the progress you're making as your journey continues.
We do not need to have a president who insults Mexicans and Latinos and Muslims and women and veterans and African-Americans, we need a president who brings us together, not divides us up.