The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
I don't expect congratulations for successful beginning, what I want is the applaud at successful ending.
Applause waits on success.
Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
If you are a magician then you can always do a lot more magic than you think you can.
The wider you spread your fingers apart while clapping is equal to the amount of retarded you look while clapping.
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
About the only person we ever heard of that wasn't spoiled by being lionized was a Jew named Daniel.