Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by other individuals or by the government; the right to work and to adequate earnings from work; freedom of discussion and teaching; adequate participation of the individual in the formation of his government. These human rights are nowadays recognised theoretically, although, by abundant use of formalistic, legal manoeuvres, they are being violated to a much greater extent than even a generation ago.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.