Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

There's never any great risk as long as you have money.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

You confuse what's important with what's impressive.