The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

To retire is to begin to die

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

Beauty is all about us, but how may are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers where also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.