“Love turns work into rest.”

“And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,
Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns away
All shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.”

“Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest… my blood… my compass… my love…”

“The man who truly loves his work returns to it after the briefest rest with a curious kind of voluptuousness. When he is completely absorbed in his job, the end of work seems like the end of life.”

“‎A change of work is the best rest.”

“To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?”

“I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it.”

“To lose and to hold tightly,
To love and take delight in,
To gaze upon and contemplate,
To possess utterly,
To float in that immensity
And to rest therein --
That is the work of unceasing exchange
Of charity and truth.”

“I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.”

“My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.”