. . . music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
The greatest victory you can win is over your own mind.
As you are, you see everything else.
True love knows no bargains. It is one-way traffic: giving, giving, giving.
Music is the celestial sound, and it is sound that controls the whole universe, not atomic vibrations. Sound energy, sound power, is much, much greater than any other power in the world.
Give up the drop and gain the whole ocean.
The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful.
In terms intellectually, [what] shaped my life was the whole Munich thing [the Munich Agreement] that I knew about all my life, in terms of how large powers make decisions that affect small countries, and the unintended consequences of that. The other part is I knew about the Holocaust. l just didn't know that it applied to my family. But that did affect the way I thought about what I was seeing as ethnic cleansing in the Balkans; there's no question about that.
I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.
Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.
Anything worth having is going to be hard