Unity, like so many good things, is good only in moderation.
Money itch is a bad thing. I never had that trouble.
It's no use to decide what's going to happen unless you have the courage of your convictions. Many a brilliant idea has been lost because the man who dreamed it lacked the spunk of the spine to put it across.
No man actually owns a fortune. It owns him.
I have worked without thinking of myself. This is the largest factor in whatever success I have attained.
I leave everything to the young men. You've got to give youthful men authority and responsibility if you're going to build up an organization. Otherwise you'll always be the boss yourself and you won't leave anything behind you.
My hardest job has been to keep from being a millionaire.
I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.
Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.
I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.