It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma.