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

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

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

To retire is to begin to die.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.