最好的音樂是這種音樂，它能夠使最優秀、最有教養的人快樂，特別是使那個在品德和修養上最為卓越的一個人快樂。

靈感全然不是漂亮地揮著手，而是如健牛般竭盡全力工作的心理狀態。

音樂是比一切智慧、一切哲學更高的啟示，誰能滲透我音樂的意義，便能超脫尋常人無以自拔的苦難。

生活的苦難壓不垮我。我心中的歡樂不是我自己的，我把歡樂注進音樂，為的是讓全世界感到歡樂。

音樂是心靈的迸發。它不象化學那樣能進行實驗分析。對偉大的音樂來說只有一種真正的特性，那就是感情。

人們時常埋怨音樂是這樣的模糊，聽音樂時，簡直不知如何去想才好。但每個人對文學總是能夠理解的。不過，對我來說……一首我喜愛的樂曲所傳達給我的思想和意義是不能用語言表達的。這不是因為音樂不夠具體，而是因為它太具體了。因此，我發現：每當我試圖用文字或語言來說明一段音樂時，好象是說過了，但又好象說的都不令人滿意。

音樂是一種語言，它能確切地反映個人和人民的精神品質。

在真正的音樂中，充滿了一千種心靈的感受，比言詞更好得多。

藝術的真正意義在於使人幸福，使人得到鼓舞和力量。

音樂是比一切智慧、一切哲學更高的啟示。

人都需要娛樂和變換興趣，以防止變得遲鈍、呆滯和智力上的閉塞。

音樂只對安寧的心境具有魅力

音樂，是人生最大的快樂；音樂，是生活中的一股清流；首先，是陶冶性情的熔爐。

音樂表達的是無法用語言描述，卻又不可能對其保持沉默的東西。

音樂不只是表達的藝術，它還是能引起激動的藝術。

音樂歌頌人們的生活，引導人們走向光明的未來。

音樂家必須不斷地反身自省，培養自己最內在的東西，以便使它轉向外界。

音樂家的藝術不在於直接描繪形象，而在於把心靈置於這些物件能夠在心靈裡創造的情緒中去。

音樂教育並不是音樂家的教育，而首先是人的教育。

音樂教育——不是培養音樂家，首先是培養人。

音樂教育除了非常注重道德和社會目的外，必須把美的東西作為自己的目的來探求，把人教育成美和善的。

音樂是不假任何外力，直接沁人心脾的最純的感情的火焰；它是從口吸入的空氣，它是生命的血管中流通著的血液。

Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.

Feed the musician, and he's out of tune.

If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.

Individuals with significant care needs increasingly receive services in their homes rather than in institutional settings. And correspondingly, residential care increasingly is provided by professionals employed by third-party agencies rather than by workers hired directly by care recipients and their families.

Just keep going like crazy and look back when it’s over. Otherwise, you just get confused.

Divorce is never a nice thing, but it's very easy to take family for granted, and when there's a divorce, you don't take things for granted so much.

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

I could say diamonds are a girl's best friend, and that never changes. But the taste for art did change.

A Muslim should be sincerely religious and politically aware.

Physical studies of DNA had, of course, been under way for some years before analysis of virus particles began.

Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.

To do what nobody else will do, a way that nobody else can do, in spite of all we go through; is to be a nurse

This may sound surprising for someone who works in Hollywood, but I do not count calories, and I don't even care about weight gain, which I know sounds really bizarre. I listen to my body. I don't just wake up in the morning and cook whatever I eat.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

When your first baby drops her pacifier you sterilize it. When your second baby drops her pacifier you tell the dog Fetch.

The most important lesson my parents taught me is that writing is a job, one that requires discipline and commitment. Most of the time it's a fun job, a wonderful job, but sometimes it isn't, and those are the days that test you.

Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.

Such a gift might be easily taken back again.

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

Heels are a must. The higher the better. And when in doubt go with black.