Jascha Heifetz

The less you know, the more you believe.

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Come to me, wild and untamed. Bring the oceans on your lips, the mountains on your spine; I want to explore all the places you have ever called home. Let me pluck each petal from the gardens you’ve grown, overcrowded seedlings pushing up through your bones. Come to me dipped in the stars, come to me wearing all your scars. I want to show you just how beautiful you are.

We are entering an era when we shall create resources which shall be so constantly renewed that the only loss will be not to use them. There will be such a plenteous supply of heat, light and power, that it will be a sin not to use all we want. This era is coming now. And it is coming by way of Water.