"It is extraordinary how music sends one..." - Quote by George Sand

“We must have a passion in life.”

“There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.”

“Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.”

“On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.”

“We sing for these kids who don't have a thing.”

“I think being jilted is one of life's most painful experiences. It takes a long time to heal a broken heart. It's happened to all of us and never gets any easier. I understand, however, that playing one of my albums can help.”

“The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.”

“The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.”

“When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of the large white house in which we lived throughout my boyhood. This tree I learned quite early, was exactly my age - was, in a sense, me.”