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

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

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.

I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

We can only know others by ourselves.

To miss the joy is to miss everything.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

The essence of love is kindness.